Definition of "petrified" []

• Extremely afraid. (adjective)
• Present participle of petrify. (verb)

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• "Whisper it in petrified little-boy tones: dead punctuation is invisible to everyone else — yet we see it all the time."
• "We laughed at the talk of an All-Star boycott, flinched at the talk of a strike, and remain petrified that this season could be shut down."
• "At least there weren't any live spiders running around when the Prince - who admitted to being "petrified" - was first instilled with a love of the museum by his late mother Diana,"