Looking for the meaning or definition of the word petrify? That's all it means.
to scare someone into inaction
petrify(verb)cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
"The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
lapidify, petrify(verb)change into stone
"the wood petrified with time"
rigidify, ossify, petrify(verb)make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
"rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitalitygroupthink and peer pressure have so petrified the thinking of the company's top brass that they haven't produced an innovative product in years
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