petrify

1 It’s a cry that travels far and wide, and is absolutely petrifying when heard close up.

2 “Fascinating,” he muttered, scraping at some petrified guano with the stubby end of his pen.

3 But now I was even more petrified because I didn’t want the judge to think I wasn’t taking him seriously because I was laughing.

4 Kate was already working on it—she pointed to a large petrified tree limb lying among the stony rubble nearby.

5 the processes that petrify wood

6 Also worrisome to Spribille is that his own students are petrified of being wrong, a psychological state incompatible with breakthroughs.

7 The soldiers, petrified with fear, froze where they were.

8 Percy wondered if he was horribly disfigured under there, or if his gaze could petrify people the way his mother’s could.

9 He had thought basilisks were huge dragonlike monsters that could petrify you with their eyes.

10 Jolted upright, Herbie—from force of habit—released a petrified squeak himself, then staggered to the door and opened it a crack.

11 We got under the covers and held each other, petrified, happy.

12 For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at the spectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror.

13 To convert to a mineral substance ; petrify.

这些 矿物质 使水有毒.

14 Since I’ve never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified.

15 He was back in the home of his old masters, and it was clear that he was petrified.

16 I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified.

17 I sat there for a moment longer, petrified in embarrassment, before following after her with my head ducked down.

18 Our eyes met as I stood, petrified, at the bottom of the stairwell.

19 I sat petrified, wishing that I had heard wrong.

20 Even so, our country’s asphalt limbs have mostly ceased to elongate, petrified into something like their eternal shape.

1 变成石头

lapidescent lapidify

2 丧失活力

castrate flag falter fizzle

3 僵化

sclerosis ossify stereotype calcification ossification mummify petrifaction fossilize calcify rigidify benumb frozen fossil stereotyped case-hardened fossilise stereo

4 迟钝

phlegmatical slow heavy fat thick moderate dim pudding inactive blunt opaque stagnant unresponsive lymphatic soggy inert obtuse pokey phlegmatic lumpish torpid poky dopey slow-witted muzzy half-witted purblind lobotomized sottish unapt heavy-headed torporific heavily thickness inertia stagnation inaction retardation phlegm heaviness torpor stagnancy tardigrade dullish stick-in-the-mud torpidity stagnate torpify dull opiate obtund

5 石化

petrified petrifaction lithification lithify lapidify gorgonize petrification fossilize petrochemistry fossilized consolidation fossilise mineralize

6 使惊呆

daze dumbfound transfix

7 顽固

donkeyish self-opinioned set contrary rocky stubborn uncompromising heady willful impenetrable inflexible wayward intractable spiky steely obstinate headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed inveterate ornery obdurate flinty impenitent balky hidebound stiff-necked mulish fusty pigheaded hardheaded wrongheaded bullheaded blockish self-opinionated strong-headed ropeable hard-set hard-mouthed unpliable notionate stubbornly doggedly stiffly toughly cussedly stiffness bigotry stubbornness obstinacy doggedness pertinacity obduracy cussedness pigheadedness headiness impenitence stiffen toughen hard as flint as stubborn as a mule difficult tough stiff sticky persistent rigid bullish rebellious crusty tenacious bigot deep-seated dogged hard-nosed wrong-headed hard-headed hard-shell unbending pig-headed pertinacious indurate standpat refractorily frozen crustily stick-to-itiveness rabidity rabidness obstinateness bilboism persistence rigidity tenacity persistency induration petrifaction crustiness rigidify harden ossify

8 使茫然

stagger

9 冷酷无情

cold-livered marblehearted marble ice-cold inclement flinty affectless coldhearted granite cruelty flint inclemency steel

10 吓呆

frozen petrified aghast stupefied thunderstruck petrifaction stun fascinate stupefy freeze gorgonize dumbfound dumfound amazedly

11 坚硬

hard firm rigid stubborn hardened brazen steely granitic marmoreal ironbound steel hardness rigidity adamancy harden indurate

12 麻木

rigescent whack-out dead stupid asleep numb lobotomized stupidly callously numbly rigescence anesthesia numbness insensibility stolidity deaden benumb anaesthetise

13 变硬

indurative harden bind solidify stiffen indurate

14 发呆

speechless bemused stupefied lobotomized abstractedly moonraking stupor woolgather sleep drowse transfix stupefy as dead as a dodo blank vague soulless vacuous muzzy faintish vacant abstraction abstracted vacuity petrifaction muzz bemuse inebriate asleep

15 使发呆

transfix stupefy muzz bemuse inebriate

16 使顽固

stiffen toughen rigidify harden ossify indurate

17 把…吓呆

transfixed transfix

18 使迟钝

torporific torpify dull opiate obtund

19 使坚硬

steel indurate

20 使吓呆

stun fascinate stupefy

21 使变硬

harden

22 冷酷

flinthearted stonyhearted tough iron bitter marble brutal grim relentless ruthless stony inhuman unrelenting heartless steely unkind cold-blooded inexorable unfeeling remorseless obdurate snaky bloody-minded hardhearted uncompassionate ironhearted callously frostily unfeelingly heart induration grimness obduracy frostiness rockiness steel with an iron hand hard as iron tough as nails

23 变僵硬

ankylose stiffen

24 使冷酷

steel

25 惊呆

petrifaction dumbfound freeze take breath away petrified pull up short knock for six knock sideways six frozen nonplussed transfix stony bedaze

26 使麻木

numb deaden benumb anaesthetise

27 使僵化

ossify stereotype fossilize benumb

28 使失去活力

deactivate

29 失去活力

deactivate

30 茫然

lost blank absent vacant dazed vacuous absent-minded absentminded absently vacantly muddily stupor vacuity muddiness absent-mindedness stupefaction stagger all at sea