petrify

verb6

1. •
   To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

   • a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves — 1799
2. •
   To immobilize with fright.
3. •
   To produce rigidity akin to stone.
4. •
   To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
5. •
   (figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

   • Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief. — 1685
6. •
   (figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.

   • A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. — 1874