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petrifying
adjective as in appalling
adjective as in frightful/frightening
Weak matches
- alarming
- appalling
- atrocious
- awesome
- awful
- chilling
- daunting
- dire
- direful
- dismaying
- disquieting
- dread
- dreadful
- fearful
- fearsome
- formidable
- ghastly
- grabber
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hair-raising
- hairy
- harrowing
- hideous
- horrendous
- horrible
- horrid
- horrifying
- inconceivable
- intimidating
- lurid
- macabre
- menacing
- morbid
- ominous
- portentous
- repellent
- spooky
- terrible
- terrifying
- traumatic
- unnerving
- unspeakable
adjective as in nightmarish
adjective as in terrible
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The water has also a petrifying quality, covering every substance that it passes over with a hard white stony substance.
The longing for a real heart-to-heart friendship had been on one side only; that was the first, and most petrifying revelation.
The Duchess is reduced to speechlessness, and takes refuge in a petrifying stare.
Calcareous tuf consists of similar incrustations made by petrifying rivulets running over mud, sand, vegetable remains, &c.
Something in me had suddenly turned stony, like a plant plunged in petrifying water.
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On this page you'll find 195 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to petrifying, such as: alarming, astounding, awful, dire, disheartening, and dreadful.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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