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petrified

  • adjective

Having undergone the process of petrification transformation into a stony substance; turned to stone.

Other meanings

  1. Extremely afraid.

Related words

  • nonpetrified
  • unpetrified
  • petrified carpentry
  • semipetrified

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “petrified” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.