pet·ri·fy /ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ/
 (v.)使石化;使冷酷;使嚇呆
 pet·ri·fy /ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪ/ 動詞
 Pet·ri·fy, v. i.
 1. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
 2. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
 Like Niobe we marble grow,
 And petrify with grief.   --Dryden.
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 Pet·ri·fy v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying ]
 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance; as, petrified wood.
    A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves.   --Kirwan.
 2. To make callous or obdurate; to transform, as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. “Petrifying accuracy.”
    And petrify a genius to a dunce.   --Pope.
    A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.   --G. Eliot.
    The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing.   --De Quincey.
 petrify
      v 1: cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;
           "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her
           thinking"
      2: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: lapidify]
      3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify
         the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods";
         "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify]
      [also: petrified]