参考词典中petrify的常规释义:
基本释义
- v. 使石化;使冷酷;使吓呆,(使)变为石头,(喻)使无思考、无感觉、无行动等能力;使发呆(因恐惧、惊吓等之故)
词形变化
- 时 态:pet·ri·fied, pet·ri·fy·ing, pet·ri·fies
参考例句
- To convert to a mineral substance;petrify.
使成矿使转化为矿物质;使石化
- To convert to a mineral substance;petrify.
英英解释
3个动词解释
- cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
[例]- The horror petrified his feelings
- Fear petrified her thinking
- change into stone
[同] lapidify, petrify
[例]- the wood petrified with time
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- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
[同] ossify, petrify, rigidify
[例]- rigidify the training schedule
- ossified teaching methods
- slogans petrify our thinking
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