petrify
verb (used with object)
to convert into stone or a stony substance.
will petrify
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future tenseof petrify.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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So, some rare waters in Derbyshire will petrify birds'-nests.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
But they tell me she is so austere since this rigid vow—so awful—she will petrify me with a look.
From The Widow's Vow A Farce, in Two Acts by Mrs. Inchbald
"I fear your biographers will conceive themselves writing at the feet of a New World Sphinx, and that its frozen granite loneliness will petrify their image of you."
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
