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panic-stricken, frightened, afraid, paralysed, numbed, benumbed,
frozen: The maiden stood petrified as the dragon, breathing
fire, approached. 2 shocked, speechless, dumbfounded or
dumfounded, dumbstruck, stunned, thunderstruck, astonished,
astounded, confounded, stupefied, appalled, aghast, Colloq
flabbergasted: The firemen rescued three petrified children who
were huddled in a corner. 3 ossified, fossilized: These were
not stones but the petrified remains of ancient trees.
petrify v. 1 frighten, scare, horrify, terrify, paralyse, numb, benumb:
I was petrified by the noise of the explosion. 2 shock,
dumbfound or dumfound, stun, astonish, astound, amaze, confound,
disconcert, stupefy, appal, Colloq flabbergast: The sight of so
much destruction petrified even hardened reporters. 3 ossify,
fossilize, turn to stone: Over thousands of years the desert
conditions petrify the wood.
petty adj. 1 insignificant, trivial, paltry, minor, inferior,
niggling, trifling, negligible, puny, inessential,
non-essential, inconsequential, unimportant, slight, nugatory,
of no account, US dinky, Colloq piddling, measly, no great
shakes, no big deal, small-time, Brit twopenny-halfpenny or
tuppenny-halfpenny, US and Canadian picayune: He has been
convicted only of petty crimes. 2 miserly, mean, mingy, stingy,
cheese-paring, grudging, small-minded, cheap, niggardly,
parsimonious, tight, tight-fisted, close, close-fisted: It was
very petty of you to refuse the beggar a few pence.
petulant adj. peevish, pettish, impatient, ill-humoured, testy, waspish,
irascible, choleric, cross, captious, ill-tempered,
bad-tempered, splenetic, moody, sour, bilious, crabby, crabbed,
irritable, huffish, huffy, perverse, snappish, crotchety,
cantankerous, curmudgeonly, grouchy, grumpy: With a petulant
gesture she hurled the rose away.
16.3 phantom...
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phantom n. 1 apparition, spectre, ghost, spirit, phantasm, shade,
wraith, revenant, vision, Formal eidolon, phantasma, Colloq
spook: The so-called phantom of the opera turned out to be a
real person. 2 figment (of the imagination), illusion,