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petrified | phobia |

As an adjective petrified

is extremely afraid.

As a verb petrified

is (petrify).

As a noun phobia is

an irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.

petrified

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Extremely afraid.

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (petrify)

    • phobia

    English

    Noun

  • An irrational or obsessive fear or anxiety, usually of or about something particular.
    • I know someone with a strange phobia of ladders.

    Related terms

    * -phobe * -phobia * -phobic

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