petrified English

Meaning petrified meaning

What does petrified mean?

Definitions in simple English

— If you are petrified, you are so scared that you cannot move. The young child was petrified after the dog barked.

— Extremely afraid.

What other words have the same or similar meaning as petrified?

stunned hardened freeze turn to stone petrify harden frozen fossilized fossil stupefied stony stiff petrification lithification

What do people use petrified to talk about?

What words describe something that is hard?

hard adamant firm indurate petrified concrete tough

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