Petrify



ENGLISH MEANING
verb
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
2.
(TRANSITIVE) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
3.
(INTRANSITIVE) To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
4.
(FIGURATIVE) (INTRANSITIVE) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.