- Types Of Speech
- You can use petrify as a verb in a sentence.
- About Petrify
- A 3 syllables verb and 7 letters with the letters e, f, i, p, r, t, and y, 5 consonants, 2 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter r. Petrify starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters p, pe, pet, petr, petri, and the ending characters are y, fy, ify, rify, trify, ..
- Definition
- Cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
- Origin/Roots
- Medieval Latin
- School Grade
- Petrify is set as a sat word that starts with p, ends with y, 3 syllables, 2 vowels and 7 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is petrify a scrabble word? A 15 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Petrify in Pig Latin is said as "etrifypay or etrifypway".
- Unigram
- p | e | t | r | i | f | y
- Bigram
- pe | et | tr | ri | if | fy
- Trigram
- pet | etr | tri | rif | ify
- Quadrigram
- petr | etri | trif | rify
- Word Gram
- Verb Examples
- cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned;
"The horror petrified his feelings";
"Fear petrified her thinking" - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;
"rigidify the training schedule";
"ossified teaching methods";
"slogans petrify our thinking" - change into stone;
"the wood petrified with time"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affright | cause fear in "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" |
| Alarm | a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event |
| Alarm System | |
| Amaze | be a mystery or bewildering to "This beats me!" "Got me--I don''t know the answer!" "a vexing problem" "This question really stuck me" |
| Anneal | toughen (steel or glass) by a process of gradually heating and cooling "temper glass" |
| Appal | fill with apprehension or alarm cause to be unpleasantly surprised "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview" "The news of the executions horrified us" |
| Appall | fill with apprehension or alarm cause to be unpleasantly surprised "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview" "The news of the executions horrified us" |
| Astonish | affect with wonder "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!" |
| Astound | affect with wonder "Your ability to speak six languages amazes me!" |
| Awe | an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" |
View all cognitive synonyms for Petrify
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Petrify | cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned "The horror petrified his feelings" "Fear petrified her thinking" |
View English words with the unique letters used in petrify. Words With The Letters Efiprty
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blunt | make less lively, intense, or vigorous impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation "Terror blunted her feelings" "deaden a sound" |
| Deaden | convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrify (7 letters) | 15 | 15 | efiprty | ||
| Prettify (8 letters) | 16 +1 | 16 +1 | efiprtty | ||
| Pretypify (9 letters) | 22 +7 | 22 +7 | efipprtyy |
Petrify Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With P
- Ends With Y
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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