Sami had a petrifying experience.
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Petrifying
Synonyms for "petrifying" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
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More general
7 entrieschange of stateemotional descriptoremotional statefear descriptorfear responsegeological processmineralization process
More specific
11 entriesfossilizationfrightenmineralizationparalyzepetrifying glarepetrifying lookpetrifying scenepetrifying starereplacementsilicificationterrify
Collocations
11 entriesgeological petrificationpetrification processpetrified forestpetrified woodpetrifierpetrifying agentpetrifying fearpetrifying gazepetrifying glarepetrifying processpetrifying scene
Inflections
4 entriesDerivations
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The idea of speaking in front of such a large audience was petrifying.
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