petrify

• vi. 石化；惊呆
• vt. 使…石化；使…惊呆

来自拉丁语petra,石头，词源同petroleum,-fy,使。引申词义使石化，惊呆。

1. cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;

"The horror petrified his feelings"

"Fear petrified her thinking"

2. change into stone;

"the wood petrified with time"

3. make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;

"rigidify the training schedule"

"ossified teaching methods"

"slogans petrify our thinking"

petrify (v.)

1590s, from Middle French pétrifier "to make or become stone" (16c.), from Latin petra "rock, crag" (see petrous) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Metaphoric sense of "paralyze with fear or shock" first recorded 1771. Related: Petrified; petrifying.

To convert to a mineral substance ; petrify.

这些 矿物质 使水有毒.

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