- petrifying - paralyzing with terror
Antonym: unalarming (indirect, via alarming)
- petrify - cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
--1 is one way to deaden, blunt
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- lapidify, petrify - change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
--2 is one way to fossilize, fossilise
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun petrifaction1, noun petrifaction2, noun petrification1
Something ----s something
- rigidify, ossify, petrify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
--3 is one way to stiffen
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- lapidify, petrify - change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"