petrify
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Petrify, pet′ri-fī, v.t. to turn into stone: to make hard like a stone: to fix in amazement.—v.i. to become stone, or hard like stone:—pa.t. and pa.p. pet′rified.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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