half-petrified

• a word derived from petrified.
  petrified

  adjective

  having been numbed or paralyzed with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion.

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half-petrified

She hung, listening, with a backward swerve of figure, and regarding him in the dim light of the swinging hall-lamp, for the moment half-petrified.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 by Various

Richard hurriedly reversed the mass of plaster on the table, and released Margaret's half-petrified fingers.

From The Stillwater Tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The prose ripples and rises to dancing measure when the King of the Age, wandering in a lonely palace, comes upon the half-petrified youth, "the Ensorcelled Prince."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

I may remark that all the very ancient specimens of the relics of the true cross are of the same wood, which has a very peculiar half-petrified appearance.

From Visits To Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

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