petrify

verbs

cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned

"The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"

petrify

is a type of (narrower)

make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation

"Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"

change into stone

"the wood petrified with time"

lapidify, petrify

is derived from

is derived from

is derived from

make rigid and set into a conventional pattern

"rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"

ossify, petrify, rigidify