"petrifying" meaning in English

See petrifying in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Head templates: {{head|en|adjective}} petrifying
  1. Causing immense fear; extremely scary Synonyms: frightening, terrifying
    Sense id: en-petrifying-en-adj-T6Grez~H

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} petrifying
  1. present participle and gerund of petrify Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: petrify
    Sense id: en-petrifying-en-verb-LBYXujot Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72

Download JSON data for petrifying meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "petrifying",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The idea of speaking in front of such a large audience was petrifying."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing immense fear; extremely scary"
      ],
      "id": "en-petrifying-en-adj-T6Grez~H",
      "links": [
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "scary",
          "scary"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frightening"
        },
        {
          "word": "terrifying"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "petrifying"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "petrifying",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "petrify"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of petrify"
      ],
      "id": "en-petrifying-en-verb-LBYXujot",
      "links": [
        [
          "petrify",
          "petrify#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "petrifying"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "petrifying",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The idea of speaking in front of such a large audience was petrifying."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Causing immense fear; extremely scary"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fear",
          "fear"
        ],
        [
          "scary",
          "scary"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frightening"
        },
        {
          "word": "terrifying"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "petrifying"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "petrifying",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "petrify"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of petrify"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "petrify",
          "petrify#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "petrifying"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.