Definitions for petrify

petrify pet·ri·fy

Spelling: [pe-truh-fahy]
IPA: /ˈpɛ trəˌfaɪ/

Petrify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in petrify (efiprty).

Definitions for petrify

verb (used with object)

  1. to convert into stone or a stony substance.
  2. to benumb or paralyze with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion:
  3. to make rigid or inert; harden; deaden:

verb (used without object)

  1. to become petrified.

Origin of petrify

From the Middle French word petrifier, dating back to 1585-95. See petri-, -fy

Examples for petrify

The poet in dealing with his own time, must also see to it that language does not petrify on his hands.

Policy seems to petrify their minds when they 've got on an eminence.

I haven't seen a soul since one o'clock and I was beginning to petrify.

Why, George, I can't say fine things to them; they freeze, they petrify me.

What did she mean by that allusion to the cold people who petrify flesh to marble?

So, some rare waters in Derbyshire will petrify birds'-nests.

Nothing so sure to petrify the warmer sensibilities as neglect and wrong.

Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins.

You petrify that man at the inn by the very way you speak to him, such condemnation!

It rang down the corridor and seemed to petrify his grasp upon her.

Word Value for petrify
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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