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Definition of Petrifying
1. Adjective. Paralyzing with terror.
Definition of Petrifying
1. Adjective. Causing immense fear; immobilising with fright; scary; frightening; terrifying ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of petrify) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petrifying
1. petrify [v] - See also: petrify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petrifying
Literary usage of Petrifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Pathology: Or the Science of the Causes, Nature and Course of the by Ernst Ziegler (1903)
"In harmony with this view is the fact that the color Fio. 2B8.—petrifying
large-celled sarcoma of the tibia ... calcareous concretions ; d, petrifying ..."
2. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1824)
"petrifying Incrusting waters ought to be carefully distinguished from those
possessed of a petrifying property. These last, charged with siliceous particles ..."
3. The Old Red Sandstone: To which is Appended a Series of Geological Papers by Hugh Miller (1858)
"petrifying Springs. — Building- Stone and Lime of the Old Red Sandstone. — Its
various Soils. THERE has been much money lost, and a good deal won, ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"alabaster, made by the petrifying of the water, a day's journey from Tauris,
where it soon hardens in a ditch. It is much esteemed by that nation, ..."
5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1828)
"petrifying quality of the ... I formerly noticed the petrifying qualities of the
water of the river ..."
6. The Microscope: An Illustrated Monthly Designed to Popularize the Subject of (1894)
"Can you give me directions for Koch's " petrifying " method flr sections of jaws
and teeth ?—JD Mood;/. Saw offa thin slice of the jaw and tooth, stain it, ..."
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