petrified

Verb

• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
  • "The horror petrified his feelings"
  • "Fear petrified her thinking"
• change into stone
  • "the wood petrified with time"
• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
• simple past and past participle of petrify

Adj

• Having undergone the process of petrification (transformation into a stony substance); turned to stone.
• Extremely afraid.

Synonyms

lapidify, ossify, petrify, rigidify, afraid