petrify

verb

1. 使吓呆；使惊呆
   to make sb feel extremely frightened
2. （使）石化
   to change or to make sth change into a substance like stone

1. VERB 使吓呆；使惊呆
   If something petrifies you, it makes you feel very frightened.
   1. Prison petrifies me and I don't want to go there.
      监狱太可怕了，我不想去那里。
2. V-ERG （使）停止变化；（使）停止发展
   If something such as a society or institution petrifies, or if something petrifies it, it stops changing and developing.
   1. ...the fear that a political deadlock may petrify economic initiatives.
      对政治僵局可能会使经济发展停滞的担心

1. Prison petrifies me and I don't want to go there.
   监狱太可怕了，我不想去那里。
2. People are apt to petrify, even at a University, if they follow the same paths too persistently.
   当有些人钻进牛角尖的时候，即使是在大学学府里，他们也会变得冥顽不化的。
3. If civilization was not to wither or petrify.
   如果文明将不会消亡或僵化。

verb

1. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
   1. The horror petrified his feelings
   2. Fear petrified her thinking

2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
   1. rigidify the training schedule
   2. ossified teaching methods
   3. slogans petrify our thinking

   Synonym:    rigidifyossify

3. change into stone
   1. the wood petrified with time

   Synonym:    lapidify