petrified

B2 Topic:Time
US /ˈpɛtrəˌfaɪd/
adj verb Freq #17063

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Extremely frightened; so scared that you cannot move.

    She was petrified of spiders and refused to enter the room.

  2. 2
    adj

    Turned into stone over a very long time.

    The museum displayed a piece of petrified wood millions of years old.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · extremely frightened; so... terrified
Word family
Derived forms nonpetrifiedsemipetrifiedunpetrified

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