The boys discovered petrified wood in the stream.
The sight of the huge monster left him petrified, too scared to move.
It takes a lot more than just time to petrify a forest.
(The word can mean turned to stone, or metaphorically, shocked into immobility.)The petrified remains of sea animals are found in fossil.When the ghost suddenly appeared, he was petrified.
With the help of my hypnotherapist, I am no longer afraid of the dark. OR, a sentence containing the word, as requested: When I saw the burglar I was petrified; I couldn't move until he'd left. (Petrified = turned to stone/rock. Petrol(eum) comes out of rocks, St. Peter is said to be the rock of the Christian church etc.)
I hate to break this to you, dear questioner, but you just did. Other answers: Anyone can use the word petrified. There is no law regarding the use of the word, and it would be illegal for a government to wilfully imprison, torture, reprimand and/or kill an individual or group of people for using the word petrified. You would use the word petrified to express fear and/or fright.
The sample of petrified wood felt like a piece of stone.
Yes, the word petrified can be used as a verb.As in:"he petrified the wood".Other verbs are petrify, petrifies and petrifying.
I am not writing a sentence using that word.
Petrified means to be shocked by something. For example: The man was petrified at what he saw.
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The wood petrified with time
The word petrified has three syllables. The syllables in the word are pe-tri-fied.