Petrify

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[v] cause to become stone-like or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking"
[v] make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
[v] change into stone; "the wood petrified with time"

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lapidify, ossify, rigidify

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