petrified

petrified
adj
1. ossified, osseous, fossilized, turned to stone, Both Archaic. lapidified, lapidific; mineralized, horny, corneous, bony, sclerotic; calcified, vitrified, vitreous, crystallized, crystalline; indurate, indurated, hard, hardened, hard as a rock, hard as stone, stony, stonelike, lithoid, lithoidal, rocky, rock-like, aphanitic, porphyritic; solid, solidified, dense, densified; concrete, granitic, flinty; adamantine, steely, callous, strong.
2. stupefied, paralyzed, benumbed, numbed, dumb, incapacitated, insensitized; anesthetized, stunned, frozen; staggered, taken aback, floored, shocked, jarred, jolted, Inf. bowled over; dumfounded, speechless, struck dumb, Inf. flabbergasted; shocked, electrified, dazed.
3. panic-stricken, terrified, horrified, terror-stricken, horror-stricken, scared out of one's wits; startled, overcome with fear, overwhelmed, afraid, frightened; frozen with terror, pale as a ghost, white as a sheet; shaken, shaking, shaking like an aspen, quivering, quavering.

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