petrify
Definition of abbreviation (noun) -
to paralyze with horror, fear or surprisePart of speech:
VerbForms: petrified; petrified; petrifying
Example sentences with this word:
When Amy Moyle, the wife of Josias Clarke, died in 1631 her husband decided to petrify his last memory of her by having cut a supine effigy, which showed his wife in her shroud.
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