petrified
About 0.87 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.
- adjective Extremely afraid.
- verb simple past and past participle of petrify
Similar words
afraid hard numb mineralized mineral scared frightened scary hardened cast
Often followed by
forest wood with by in and into of man
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