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How to pronounce “petrify”
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Pronunciation guide for petrify
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- Practice the English pronunciation of petrify with real speech in context.
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- It Takes a Tribe: Building the Tough Mudder Movement
And yes, they scared me, but they didn't petrify me.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
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How to pronounce petrify
It Takes a Tribe: Building the Tough Mudder Movement
And yes, they scared me, but they didn't petrify me.
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A Deep Dive Into “petrify”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.
- To produce rigidity akin to stone.
- To immobilize with fright.
- (intransitive) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
- (intransitive, figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
- (transitive, figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.
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