Timeline for One word - someone so scared that he can't move
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 12:09 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | From the musical "Camelot": A warrior who's so calm in battle Even his armor doesn't rattle Faces a woman petrified with fright? Right | |
| Aug 5, 2017 at 14:35 | history | edited | Hellion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2017 at 16:10 | comment | added | Max Williams | I don't think I've ever encountered "petrified" in a non-fearful figurative sense. | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 17:15 | comment | added | Hellion | @Mari-LouA Other way round, really; answered it quickly without even thinking about it, eventually it came up in the "review close votes" queue, and then thought "yeah, probably deserves a close vote too." | |
| Mar 8, 2015 at 8:36 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | So you voted to close the question but in four minutes you answered it all the same. | |
| Mar 7, 2015 at 12:23 | comment | added | David Richerby | @Chris Yes and no. Petrified is used literally to mean "turned to stone" (as in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona) or figuratively to mean "unable to move because of fear". In cases where it's not being used to refer to the fossilization of organic matter, it always relates to fear. (Unless you have any examples of usage to the contrary?) | |
| Mar 6, 2015 at 15:05 | comment | added | Doktor J | Another phrase is quite simply/straightforwardly "paralyzed with fear", which is exactly what's happening (credit to Zibbobz for providing this as an answer further below, about two days ago, lol) | |
| Mar 5, 2015 at 0:40 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | From the musical "Camelot": "A warrior who's so calm in battle Even his armor doesn't rattle Faces a woman petrified with fright? Right!" | |
| Mar 4, 2015 at 13:52 | comment | added | user112551 | Petrified comes from the greek petra that means stone. While it usually means scared, it does not have to be related to fear. | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:40 | vote | accept | weakphoneme | ||
| Mar 3, 2015 at 21:09 | comment | added | Sean Allred | Also the first word to come to mind. 'Turned to stone.' | |
| Mar 3, 2015 at 18:57 | history | answered | Hellion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |