petrify

To convert (wood or other organic matter) into a stony replica by petrifaction.

To cause to lose vitality or become impervious to change; deaden.

To stun or paralyze with terror; daze.

To convert into stone or a stony substance; change into stone.

To make hard as stone; render hard or callous: as, to petrify the heart.

To paralyze or stupefy as with fear or amazement: as, to petrify one with astonishment.

To become stone or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by means of calcareous or other deposits in its cavities; hence, to change into lifeless hardness or rigidity.

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.