a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves
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Petrify
//ˈpɛ.tɹəˌfaɪ//
Synonyms for "petrify" (90 found)
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Related words (45)
Verb(16 words)
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79 translations across 26 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- πωρόω verb (to harden organic matter)
- πωρόω verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
Asturian
1 entries- petrificar verb (to harden organic matter)
Bulgarian
4 entries- вкаменявам verb (to harden organic matter)
- вкаменявам verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- вкаменявам се verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- вкаменявам се verb (to become stony, callous, or obdurate)
Catalan
3 entries- petrificar verb (to harden organic matter)
- petrificar verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- petrificar verb (to immobilize with fright)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 使发呆 verb (to make callous or obdurate; to transform as by petrification)
- 石化 verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
Danish
3 entries- forstene verb (to harden organic matter)
- forstene verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- forstene verb (to immobilize with fright)
Dutch
4 entries- verstarren verb (to immobilize with fright)
- verstenen verb (to harden organic matter)
- verstenen verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- verstenen verb (to immobilize with fright)
Finnish
4 entries- jähmettää verb (to immobilize with fright)
- jähmettää verb (to make callous or obdurate; to transform as by petrification)
- kivettyä verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- kivettää verb (to harden organic matter)
French
3 entries- pétrifier verb (to harden organic matter)
- pétrifier verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- pétrifier verb (to immobilize with fright)
Galician
2 entries- petrificar verb (to harden organic matter)
- petrificar verb (to immobilize with fright)
German
3 entries- erstarren verb (to immobilize with fright)
- versteinern verb (to harden organic matter)
- versteinern verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
Greek
2 entries- απολιθώνω verb (to harden organic matter)
- απολιθώνω verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
Hindi
2 entries- पथराना verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- पथराना verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
Italian
1 entries- pietrificare verb (to harden organic matter)
Japanese
1 entries- 石化する verb (to harden organic matter)
Latin
1 entries- lapidesco verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
Polish
4 entries- drętwieć verb (to immobilize with fright)
- lodowacieć verb (to immobilize with fright)
- zdrętwieć verb (to immobilize with fright)
- zlodowacieć verb (to immobilize with fright)
Portuguese
3 entries- petrificar verb (to harden organic matter)
- petrificar verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- petrificar verb (to immobilize with fright)
Romanian
4 entries- petrifica verb (to harden organic matter)
- petrifica verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- petrifica verb (to immobilize with fright)
- împietri verb (to immobilize with fright)
Russian
4 entries- камене́ть verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- камене́ть verb (to become stony, callous, or obdurate)
- окамене́ть verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- окамене́ть verb (to become stony, callous, or obdurate)
Spanish
2 entries- petrificar verb (to harden organic matter)
- petrificar verb (to immobilize with fright)
Swedish
3 entries- förstena verb (to harden organic matter)
- förstena verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- förstena verb (to immobilize with fright)
Tagalog
1 entries- nanigas verb (to immobilize with fright)
Turkish
4 entries- donakalmak verb (to immobilize with fright)
- taş kesilmek verb (to immobilize with fright)
- taşa dönmek verb (to harden organic matter)
- taşlaşmak verb (to harden organic matter)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ціпені́ти verb (to immobilize with fright)
Welsh
4 entries- caregu verb (to harden organic matter)
- caregu verb (to produce rigidity akin to stone)
- caregu verb (to become stone, or of a stony hardness)
- fferru verb (to immobilize with fright)
Sample sentences
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Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.
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Hopes, feelings, and passion, petrify one after another; the crust of experience soon hardens over the hidden past; and who, looking on the levelled and subdued exterior, could dream of the wreck and ravage that lies below?
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petrify a genius to a dunce
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.