English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "versteen" is om iemand so bang of bang te maak dat hulle nie kan beweeg of optree nie. 'n Ander definisie is om iets in klip of 'n klipperige stof te verander, soos deur die proses van fossilisering.

Sentence Examples

  1. Dantès was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.
  2. Some were condensing air into a dry tangible substance, by extracting the niter, and letting the aqueous or fluid particles percolate others softening marble for pillows and pincushions others petrifying the hoofs of a living horse to preserve them from foundering.
  3. Dean had never experienced anything like it, it was haunting, petrifying.
  4. That fear, that terrible and petrifying fear, which he felt while he was rolling the dice, while he was worried about losing high stakes, that fear he loved and sought to always renew it, always increase it, always get it to a slightly higher level, for in this feeling alone he still felt something like happiness, something like an intoxication, something like an elevated form of life in the midst of his saturated, lukewarm, dull life.