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Troubled vs Petrified - What's the difference?

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Troubled is a related term of petrified.


As adjectives the difference between troubled and petrified

is that troubled is anxious, worried, careworn while petrified is extremely afraid.

As verbs the difference between troubled and petrified

is that troubled is (trouble) while petrified is (petrify).

troubled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)

    • petrified

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Extremely afraid.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (petrify)