Definitions For Petrify

verb

  • Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright
  • Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
  • Change into stone
  • To make (someone) very afraid
  • To slowly change (something, such as wood) into stone or a substance like stone over a very long period of time

Is Petrify a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
15

The word Petrify is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Petrify in a Sentence

  • The processes that petrify wood
  • The dead tree petrified into stone.

Synonyms for Petrify

Antonyms for Petrify

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