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petrify
 
Verb petrify has 3 senses
  1. petrify - cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
    --1 is one way to     deaden, blunt
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  2. lapidify, petrify - change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"
    --2 is one way to fossilize, fossilise
    Derived forms: noun petrifaction1, noun petrifaction2, noun petrification1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  3. rigidify, ossify, petrify - make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
    --3 is one way to stiffen
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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