petrify

英 [ˈpetrɪfaɪ]

美 [ˈpetrɪfaɪ]

v.  使吓呆; 使惊呆; (使)石化

过去式：petrified　第三人称单数：petrifies　现在分词：petrifying　过去分词：petrified　

TOEFLGRE

BNC.42984 / COCA.38922

牛津词典

verb

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

柯林斯词典

• VERB 使吓呆；使惊呆
  If somethingpetrifiesyou, 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。
• V-ERG （使）停止变化；（使）停止发展
  If something such as a society or institutionpetrifies, or if somethingpetrifiesit, 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

英英释义

verb

• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
  1. The horror petrified his feelings
  2. Fear petrified her thinking
• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
  1. rigidify the training schedule
  2. ossified teaching methods
  3. slogans petrify our thinking
  Synonym:rigidifyossify
• change into stone
  1. the wood petrified with time
  Synonym:lapidify

双语例句

• 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。
• Prison petrifies me and I don't want to go there.
  监狱太可怕了，我不想去那里。
• If civilization was not to wither or petrify.
  如果文明将不会消亡或僵化。