Synonyms for Petrify:

• n.

  •
  • hold back,
  • clarify,
  • squeeze out,
  • solidify,
  • cut into,
  • stamp out,
  • interfere with,
  • kill off,
  • suppress,
  • shut off.
  •
  • shake up,
  • startle,
  • astonish,
  • chill,
  • frighten/scare the wits out of someone.
  •
  • boil over,
  • bake,
  • atomize,
  • cloud,
  • solid,
  • boil away,
  • concrete,
  • boil up,
  • break down,
  • bubble,
  • dry,
  • boil,
  • clear.
  •
  • stupefy,
  • affect,
  • numb.
  •lapidify (noun)
  • lapidify.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • process.
  •petrify (noun)
  • rigidify.

• v.

  •appall/appal (verb)
  • dis mayed,
  • dis maying,
  • un nerving,
  • dis heartens,
  • un nerve,
  • dis-concert,
  • dis-hearten,
  • dis mays,
  • gat to,
  • dis-maying,
  • grosses out,
  • dis concerted,
  • gotten to,
  • out raging,
  • dis-heartened,
  • dis hearten,
  • dis heartened,
  • grossing out,
  • un-nerve,
  • out rages,
  • out-raged,
  • out raged,
  • dis-concerted,
  • un-nerving,
  • dis-heartens,
  • dis-concerting,
  • dis concert,
  • dis concerts,
  • out-raging,
  • dis-may,
  • dis concerting,
  • dis may,
  • out-rage,
  • un-nerves,
  • un nerves,
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis-mayed,
  • out-rages,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis heartening,
  • dis-concerts,
  • un nerved,
  • out rage.
  •change (verb)
  • petrify.
  •daze (verb)
  • be wildered,
  • over-whelms,
  • be fuddle,
  • be-fogs,
  • dis tract,
  • over whelming,
  • over whelm,
  • be fogging,
  • be-fuddles,
  • dis-order,
  • be wilders,
  • dis-tract,
  • be fogged,
  • dis order,
  • be wildering,
  • be-wildering,
  • be fuddled,
  • dis-ordering,
  • be fuddling,
  • be-wilder,
  • be-wildered,
  • over power,
  • dis-ordered,
  • be-numb,
  • be fogs,
  • over powered,
  • over whelmed,
  • be-fuddling,
  • be fog,
  • be-fuddled,
  • be numb,
  • be numbing,
  • dis tracts,
  • be numbs,
  • over-whelming,
  • be-numbs,
  • be numbed,
  • be-fog,
  • dis ordered,
  • over whelms,
  • over-powered,
  • over powers,
  • be-fogging,
  • over-whelm,
  • dis-orders,
  • over powering,
  • dis-tracts,
  • dis ordering,
  • be-wilders,
  • over-whelmed,
  • over-powers,
  • be-fogged,
  • be wilder,
  • be fuddles,
  • be-numbing,
  • be-fuddle,
  • over-powering,
  • be-numbed,
  • over-power,
  • dis orders.
  •frighten (verb)
  • haunt,
  • agitate,
  • alarm,
  • amaze,
  • panic,
  • dumbfound,
  • threaten,
  • harrow,
  • immobilize,
  • dismay,
  • astound,
  • rattle,
  • disturb,
  • put chill on,
  • set on edge,
  • intimidate,
  • unnerve,
  • confound.
  •harden (verb)
  • Vitrifying,
  • calcifies,
  • densifies,
  • vitrifies,
  • densifying,
  • densified.
  •horrify (verb)
  • chilling off,
  • chills off,
  • dis gusting,
  • dis-gust,
  • dis-gusting,
  • dis-gusted,
  • dis gusts,
  • dis gust,
  • dis gusted,
  • chilled off,
  • dis-gusts.
  •indurate (verb)
  • casehardens.
  •make hard (verb)
  • Mineralize,
  • turn to stone.
  •ossify (verb)
  • turned bone,
  • turning to bone,
  • turn bone,
  • turning bone,
  • turned to bone,
  • turns bone,
  • turns to bone.
  •paralyze (verb)
  • brought grinding halt,
  • brought to grinding halt,
  • de-stroys,
  • de aden,
  • de-stroyed,
  • bring grinding halt,
  • dis armed,
  • de-aden,
  • be-musing,
  • dis arming,
  • be-mused,
  • in-capacitate,
  • de stroys,
  • de stroying,
  • in capacitating,
  • be mused,
  • be-muse,
  • dis-armed,
  • de stroyed,
  • makes nerveless,
  • bringing grinding halt,
  • made inert,
  • de-stroying,
  • stops dead,
  • in capacitate,
  • making inert,
  • de-stroy,
  • made nerveless,
  • in capacitated,
  • in-capacitated,
  • dis arms,
  • dis-arming,
  • in capacitates,
  • be muse,
  • stopt dead,
  • de adens,
  • in-capacitating,
  • de-adens,
  • stopping dead,
  • brings grinding halt,
  • makes inert,
  • be musing,
  • de stroy,
  • stopped dead,
  • brings to grinding halt,
  • bringing to grinding halt,
  • dis-arms,
  • making nerveless.
  •preserve (verb)
  • bottle,
  • marinate,
  • quick-freeze,
  • archive,
  • bank,
  • can,
  • embalm,
  • refrigerate,
  • mummify,
  • preserve,
  • conserve,
  • freeze.
  •scare (verb)
  • gives a fright,
  • scaring silly,
  • give turn,
  • giving fright,
  • strook terror in,
  • strikes terror in,
  • gives turn,
  • gave fright,
  • gave turn,
  • gave a turn,
  • scare pants off,
  • scaring pants off,
  • gives a turn,
  • scares silly,
  • giving a turn,
  • scares pants off,
  • gave a fright,
  • giving a fright,
  • scared pants off,
  • scares the pants off,
  • scaring stiff,
  • gives fright,
  • giving turn,
  • scaring the pants off,
  • give fright,
  • scared the pants off,
  • struck terror in,
  • striking terror in.
  •scarify (verb)
  • scares the daylights out of,
  • making one's hair stand end,
  • scaring daylights out of,
  • scares daylights out of,
  • making ones hair stand end,
  • made ones hair stand end,
  • makes one hair stand on end,
  • making one hair stand end,
  • make one hair stand on end,
  • makes ones hair stand on end,
  • makes one hair stand end,
  • making one's hair stand on end,
  • making hair stand on end,
  • makes one's hair stand on end,
  • made hair stand on end,
  • makes ones hair stand end,
  • making one hair stand on end,
  • scared the daylights out of,
  • make ones hair stand on end,
  • made one's hair stand end,
  • makes hair stand end,
  • scare daylights out of,
  • made one's hair stand on end,
  • made one hair stand on end,
  • make one's hair stand end,
  • scared daylights out of,
  • made ones hair stand on end,
  • makes hair stand on end,
  • make ones hair stand end,
  • sillied,
  • make one hair stand end,
  • make hair stand end,
  • making hair stand end,
  • make hair stand on end,
  • sillying,
  • scaring the daylights out of,
  • makes one's hair stand end,
  • made hair stand end,
  • made one hair stand end,
  • making ones hair stand on end.
  •solidify (verb)
  • co here,
  • co hering,
  • co-heres,
  • co heres,
  • co-hering,
  • co-here.
  •spook (verb)
  • makes one's blood run cold,
  • scared the pants of,
  • scaring the pants of,
  • made one's blood run cold,
  • scared the pants off of,
  • make one teeth chatter,
  • scares pants off of,
  • scare pants off of,
  • scaring the pants off of,
  • making ones teeth chatter,
  • made ones blood run cold,
  • scaring pants off of,
  • making ones blood run cold,
  • scared pants of,
  • make ones blood run cold,
  • makes one's teeth chatter,
  • makes ones blood run cold,
  • scare the pants of,
  • scared pants off of,
  • making one's teeth chatter,
  • made one's teeth chatter,
  • scares the pants off of,
  • made ones teeth chatter,
  • scaring pants of,
  • makes ones teeth chatter,
  • make one blood run cold,
  • scares pants of,
  • scare pants of,
  • making one blood run cold,
  • scares the pants of,
  • made one blood run cold,
  • making one teeth chatter,
  • made one teeth chatter,
  • makes one blood run cold,
  • makes one teeth chatter,
  • making one's blood run cold,
  • make ones teeth chatter.
  •stun/stupefy (verb)
  • knocking over,
  • over-comes,
  • hit like ton bricks,
  • over coming,
  • striking dumb,
  • threw curve,
  • over-coming,
  • strook dumb,
  • blows away,
  • strikes dumb,
  • took breath away,
  • hits like ton bricks,
  • hitting like ton of bricks,
  • hits like ton of bricks,
  • over comes,
  • takes breath away,
  • throws a curve,
  • throw curve,
  • hitting like ton bricks,
  • threw a curve,
  • over come,
  • throws curve,
  • knocks over,
  • knocks unconscious,
  • taking breath away,
  • knocked unconscious,
  • throwing a curve,
  • throwing curve,
  • blowing away,
  • knocking unconscious.
  •surprise (verb)
  • taking ones breath away,
  • sur-prised,
  • sur-prise,
  • dis-comfits,
  • dis comfits,
  • causes wonder,
  • sur prised,
  • sur prise,
  • sprung on,
  • struck with awe,
  • causing wonder,
  • leaves open-mouthed,
  • strook with awe,
  • takes one's breath away,
  • caused wonder,
  • leaved aghast,
  • leaving aghast,
  • leaved open-mouthed,
  • springing on,
  • un settle,
  • left openmouthed,
  • un settled,
  • leaved open mouthed,
  • un-settled,
  • took ones breath away,
  • takes ones breath away,
  • sur prises,
  • leaving open mouthed,
  • un-settling,
  • dis-comfit,
  • taking one's breath away,
  • un settling,
  • striking with awe,
  • sur-prising,
  • strikes with awe,
  • leaves openmouthed,
  • sprang on,
  • leaving openmouthed,
  • left open-mouthed,
  • left open mouthed,
  • left aghast,
  • took one breath away,
  • leaved openmouthed,
  • taking one breath away,
  • sur prising,
  • take one breath away,
  • leaves aghast,
  • springs something on,
  • un-settle,
  • sprung something on,
  • springing something on,
  • un settles,
  • leaving open-mouthed,
  • sur-prises,
  • takes one breath away,
  • leave open mouthed,
  • leaves open mouthed,
  • dis comfit,
  • took one's breath away,
  • springs on,
  • sprang something on,
  • leave openmouthed,
  • take ones breath away.
  •temper (verb)
  • toughened up,
  • toughening up,
  • toughens up.
  •terrify (verb)
  • strikes fear into,
  • struck fear in to,
  • striking fear into,
  • striking fear in to,
  • strikes fear in to,
  • strook fear in to,
  • struck fear into,
  • strike fear in to,
  • strook fear into.
  •terrorize (verb)
  • strongarm.
  •thicken (verb)
  • grew thick,
  • growing thick,
  • clabbers,
  • grows thick.
  •transfix (verb)
  • stopt tracks,
  • stops ones tracks,
  • stops one's tracks,
  • be-witches,
  • be-witch,
  • be witched,
  • stops in tracks,
  • stops in ones tracks,
  • stopping one tracks,
  • stops in one's tracks,
  • be witches,
  • stop ones tracks,
  • stops in one tracks,
  • stopt one dead,
  • be witch,
  • rivetting,
  • stopped in one tracks,
  • stop in ones tracks,
  • stopping in one's tracks,
  • trans fixing,
  • stopped ones tracks,
  • trans fixt,
  • stop in one tracks,
  • trans-fixing,
  • trans fixes,
  • stopt one tracks,
  • stops one dead,
  • stopped in one's tracks,
  • trans-fixt,
  • be-witched,
  • stopt ones tracks,
  • trans-fixed,
  • stopping tracks,
  • stopt in one tracks,
  • stopping ones tracks,
  • stop tracks,
  • stopped tracks,
  • stopped in tracks,
  • stopped one's tracks,
  • stopped one tracks,
  • stopped one dead,
  • trans fix,
  • stop in tracks,
  • stopt one's tracks,
  • stops one tracks,
  • stopt in one's tracks,
  • stop one tracks,
  • stopping one dead,
  • trans-fixes,
  • stopping one's tracks,
  • stopping in ones tracks,
  • trans-fix,
  • stopped in ones tracks,
  • stops tracks,
  • stopt in tracks,
  • be-witching,
  • stop one's tracks,
  • be witching,
  • trans fixed,
  • stopping in tracks,
  • stopping in one tracks,
  • rivetted,
  • stopt in ones tracks.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • harden,
  • indurate.
  •
  • cake,
  • congeal.
  •
  • benumb,
  • wither.
  •
  • set.
  •frighten
  • disburb,
  • scared to death,
  • scare off,
  • scare away,
  • strike terror into,
  • make teeth chatter,
  • chilled to the bone,
  • stiffed,
  • curdle the blood,
  • scarify,
  • chill to the bone,
  • scare to death,
  • stiffs,
  • make blood run cold.
  •harden
  • fossilized,
  • curdling,
  • Caking,
  • temper,
  • firmed,
  • vitrified,
  • densify,
  • curdled,
  • Fossilizing,
  • Calcified,
  • Calcifying,
  • calloused,
  • Starching,
  • Caked,
  • firming,
  • callousing,
  • Starched,
  • fossilize,
  • vitrify,
  • toughen,
  • calcify,
  • fossilizes,
  • callouses.
  •indurate
  • Caseharden,
  • Casehardening,
  • Concreting,
  • Casehardened,
  • concretes,
  • Concreted.
  •ossify
  • turn to bone.
  •Other relevant words:
  • Jellying,
  • get to,
  • strike dumb,
  • surprise,
  • clabber,
  • scares stiff,
  • scare,
  • thicken,
  • Candying,
  • Lamed,
  • Frighting,
  • gel,
  • inspissate,
  • make one's blood run cold,
  • horrify,
  • getting to,
  • tenses,
  • tensing,
  • make one's teeth chatter,
  • hit like ton of bricks,
  • knock over,
  • stop dead,
  • ossify,
  • fuddled,
  • gross out,
  • Palsying,
  • spook,
  • appall,
  • Brazed,
  • Befogging,
  • terrorize,
  • blinded,
  • blew away,
  • make inert,
  • grossed out,
  • dizzies,
  • Dizzied,
  • mystified,
  • daze,
  • anesthetizing,
  • brazes,
  • strike terror in,
  • knocked over,
  • scared stiff,
  • mystify,
  • Laming,
  • toughen up,
  • candied,
  • terrify,
  • struck dumb,
  • tensed,
  • strike fear into,
  • palsy,
  • got to,
  • knock unconscious,
  • Lames,
  • Gels,
  • give a turn,
  • gelling,
  • anesthetized,
  • gelled,
  • befogs,
  • appal,
  • give a fright,
  • blow away,
  • clabbered,
  • fuddle,
  • scared silly,
  • fuddles,
  • grow thick,
  • numbing,
  • make nerveless,
  • tempered,
  • frighten,
  • scare the pants off,
  • scare silly,
  • jellied,
  • scare stiff,
  • befogged,
  • clabbering,
  • anesthetize,
  • Fuddling,
  • scare the pants off of,
  • blinding,
  • thickening,
  • stiffen,
  • take breath away,
  • steadying,
  • scare the daylights out of,
  • befog,
  • stun,
  • make one's hair stand on end,
  • transfix,
  • steadied,
  • Frighted,
  • chill off,
  • paralyze,
  • Brazing,
  • sillies,
  • anesthetizes,
  • bring to grinding halt,
  • throw a curve,
  • gets to,
  • braze,
  • Palsies.
  •surprise
  • took aback,
  • takes aback,
  • take one's breath away,
  • leave aghast,
  • spring something on,
  • leave open-mouthed,
  • cause wonder,
  • taking aback,
  • spring on,
  • take aback,
  • strike with awe.
  •terrorize
  • Dragooned,
  • bludgeoning,
  • dragoon,
  • dragoons,
  • Dragooning,
  • bludgeoned,
  • strong arm.
  •transfix
  • Riveted,
  • stop in one's tracks,
  • mesmerize,
  • stop one dead.

Antonyms for Petrify:

• v.

  • frighten
    bore, expect, assure, encourage, delight, incite, reassure.
  • make hard
    comfort, please, calm, melt, liquefy, soften, soothe.
  • Other antonyms:
    excite, ferment, provoke, fire, kindle, cheer, quicken, inspire, charge, reactivate, buoy, resurrect, inflame, hearten, renew, arouse, brace, reawaken, galvanize, stimulate, electrify, revive, lift, whip, regenerate, stir, invigorate, rouse, rejuvenate, resuscitate, reanimate, recharge, rekindle, abet, Reawake, foment, revitalize, instigate, vivify, energize, spark, boost, fortify, vitalize, enliven, embolden, refresh, trigger.

Hyponym for Petrify:

• v.

  • change
    blunt, deaden.