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1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. 3. To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. 4. Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate. 5. cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" 
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