Charmed vs Petrify - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between charmed and petrify

is that charmed is past tense of charm while petrify is to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

is bewitched, under a magic spell (cast by a charm).

(en adjective)

Bewitched, under a magic spell (cast by a charm).

impressed

You are very gracious, I am charmed by your personality.

(physics, of a particle) Having nonzero charm.

(head)

(charm)

To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Kirwan

a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves

To produce rigidity akin to stone.

To immobilize with fright.

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

(figurative) To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Dryden

Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.

(figurative) To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Alexander Pope)

petrify a genius to a dunce

* (and other bibliographic particulars) (George Eliot)

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

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