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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

petrified \petrified\ adj. 1. Converted into stone. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] 2. Converted into a mineral; as, petrified wood. Syn: mineralized. [WordNet 1.5] 3. Same as terrified; as, petrified by the sight of the approaching bear. Syn: panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified, frightened. [WordNet 1.5] 4. rendered unable to act due to intense fear. petrified with fear Syn: frozen. [PJC] 5. Rendered lifeless or inactive; as, an imagination petrified by habitual television viewing. Syn: frozen; ossified. [PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Petrify \Pet"ri*fy\ (p[e^]t"r[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petrified; p. pr. & vb. n. Petrifying.] [L. petra rock, Gr. pe`tra (akin to pe`tros a stone) + -fy: cf. F. p['e]trifier. Cf. Parrot, Petrel, Pier.] 1. To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance; as, petrified wood. [1913 Webster] A river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves. --Kirwan. [1913 Webster] 2. To make callous or obdurate; to transform, as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] And petrify a genius to a dunce. --Pope. [1913 Webster] A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 3. To paralyze, especially with fear; to stupefy; as, she was petrified by the sight of the bear in her tent. [PJC] The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

111 Moby Thesaurus words for "petrified": Gothic, Victorian, adamant, adamantine, afraid, aghast, alabastrine, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, appalled, archaic, asbestine, ashen, astonished, astounded, awed, awestricken, awestruck, backed, benumbed, blanched, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, classical, confounded, cowed, crusted, crusty, crystallized, deadly pale, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, flabbergasted, flintlike, flinty, fossil, fossilized, frightened, frozen, granitelike, granitic, granulated, graphitic, gray with fear, grown old, hardened, hornified, horrified, horror-struck, incrusted, indurate, indurated, inorganic, intimidated, lapidified, lithic, marblelike, medieval, micaceous, mid-Victorian, mineral, numbed, of other times, old-world, ossified, pale as death, pallid, panic-stricken, paralyzed, petrogenic, reinforced, rigidified, rock, scared stiff, scared to death, sclerotic, set, shocked, silicic, slaty, solidified, speechless, steeled, stiffened, stone, strengthened, stunned, stupefied, sulfuric, sulfurous, superannuated, terrified, terror-crazed, terror-haunted, terror-ridden, terror-riven, terror-shaken, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, terror-troubled, thunderstruck, toughened, undone, unmanned, unnerved, unstrung, vitrified