Usually means: Turned into stone through fear.
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  1. petrified: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. petrified: Merriam-Webster
  3. petrified: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. petrified: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petrified: Vocabulary.com
  6. Petrified, petrified: Wordnik
  7. petrified: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. petrified: Wiktionary
  9. Petrified, petrified: Dictionary.com
  10. petrified: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Petrified (disambiguation), Petrified: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Petrified: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. petrified: Rhymezone
  14. Petrified: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. petrified: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. petrified: FreeDictionary.org
  17. petrified: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Petrified: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. petrified: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. petrified: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrified: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. petrified: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. petrified: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. petrified: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See petrify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.
adjective:  Extremely afraid.

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