Synonyms for petrified
pet·ri·fied

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1. scared

   really frightened/your shivering to much, slang.

   Submitted by anonymous on February 24, 2020  

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1. List of paraphrases for "petrified":

   hardened

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1. Simon Latimer:

   People are scared stiff, they're petrified of rocking the boat and losing their position.

2. Steve Taylor:

   We were all talking about it: If you shoot a lion, your career’s over, this guy was a really successful guide, and he died by a lion. And I think that’s the Cecil Effect. Guides in Zimbabwe are petrified of having the world turn on them.

3. David Wilson:

   At 7 p.m. we decided to turn the snowmobile off because we worried it would run out of gas and if it did we ’d have no light, and we knew the light was the only thing that would save us, my wife was petrified : she thought we were going to die.

4. Xavier Jenkins:

   It is genuinely so surprising that a site like Thunderstorm Ridge took this long to be discovered, and it's revealing a hidden diversity of ancient life at Petrified Forest.

5. Steve Bannon:

   They’re petrified of the opposition party. You know what my super power is? I don’t give a damn. I could care less what they say about me. I could care less. It’s about action. The Republican Party and the leaders of the Republican Party are cowards. You are writing your checks to cowards. Understand this. They are there for you when it’s easy. They are there to take your check. But when something comes up like the Iran situation, they will flip the Constitution of the United States so they can have some sort of conscience for voting for that —it’s outrageous.