Word Meanings - PETRIFICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To petrify. Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall .

Related words: (words related to PETRIFICATE)

• PETRIFICATION
  1. See Petrifaction. 2. Fig.: Obduracy; callousness. Hallywell.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• HEARTSOME
  Merry; cheerful; lively.
• HEARTSEED
  A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.
• HEARTSICK
  Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
• HEARTSTRING
  A nerve or tendon, supposed to brace and sustain the heart. Shak. Sobbing, as if a hearstring broke. Moore.
• HEARTSTRICKEN
  Shocked; dismayed.
• HEARTSTRIKE
  To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.
• HEARTSHAPED
  Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
• PETRIFICATE
  To petrify. Our hearts petrificated were. J. Hall .
• HEARTSTRUCK
  1. Driven to the heart; infixed in the mind. "His heartstruck injuries." Shak. 2. Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.
• PETRIFY
  1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance. A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. Kirwan. 2. To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify