petrify

Verb	1.	petrify - cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" blunt, deaden - make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
	2.	petrify - change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" lapidify fossilise, fossilize - convert to a fossil; "The little animals fossilized and are now embedded in the limestone"
	3.	petrify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" ossify, rigidify stiffen - make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"

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