及物动词
1. 使吓呆；使惊呆
If something petrifies you, it makes you feel very frightened.
1. cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
e.g. The horror petrified his feelings
Fear petrified her thinking
2. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
e.g. rigidify the training schedule
ossified teaching methods
slogans petrify our thinking
3. change into stone
e.g. the wood petrified with time
Synonym: lapidify