Usually means: Turning something into stone-like form.
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  1. petrifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. petrifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petrifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. petrifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. petrifying: Wordnik
  6. petrifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. petrifying: Wiktionary
  8. Petrifying, petrifying: Dictionary.com
  9. Petrifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. petrifying: Rhymezone
  11. Petrifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. petrifying: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. petrifying: FreeDictionary.org
  14. petrifying: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. petrifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petrifying: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petrifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Causing immense fear; extremely scary

Similar:
alarming, soul-shaking, terrible, dreaded, breath-catching, feared, terrifying, terrific, scared to death, frightening, more...

Opposite:
comforting, relaxing, calming

Types:
horrifying, scary, terrifying, nerve-wracking, heart-stopping, more...

Phrases:
Petrifying well, more...

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Similar:
alarming, soul-shaking, terrible, dreaded, breath-catching, feared, terrifying, terrific, scared to death, frightening, more...

Opposite:
comforting, relaxing, calming

Types:
horrifying, scary, terrifying, nerve-wracking, heart-stopping, more...

Phrases:
Petrifying well, more...



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