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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:57 I think that usage is fine, it implies that you feel petrified of something. It can be fear or surprise but contemporary usage is implicit fear. See below.

Why, I felt petrified with astonishment--although, in view of the fact that you had failed me for four days, I had been expecting some such extraordinary occurrence.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 
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I can see being pertrified with astonishment, but for some reasons being petrified "of" something seems off to me.  I don't know why it bugs me so.[/quote]

Are you not petrified of spider? Couldn't petrified be used the same way terrified is used?

I say 'petrified of' is perfectly fine.

Petrifyy you can visit remains of a petrified forest.
Petrifyall seemed to have sn enthralling time even tho nearly every one of them were petrified at some point.
Petrifyare unable to move anywhere and are petrified as loud noises prevent them from moving.
Petrify was absolutely petrified, you know!
Petrifyabsolutely petrified of the dentist but i'm in desperate need to go.
Petrifyld lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
Petrifying well.
Petrify petrified wood is visible in some areas with reduced water levels.
Petrify so petrified by what he had said.
Petrifyaughing cavalier was, in theory, petrified of everything.
Petrifyay between the front lines stands a petrified tree with shell shock from the war.
Petrifyan said he was robbed and threatened in halifax on july 26 but was too petrified to speak out further about his ordeal.
Petrify my scheme in the shape of the discovery of a remarkably petrified man.
Petrifypieces of wood in the lower portion of the debris were slightly calcited, while occasionally a piece was completely petrified.
Petrifyding to legend they are reputed to be the petrified remains of men who were hurling on the sabbath.
Petrify astounded, rooted to the spot, almost petrified.
Petrify they asked if the resident archeologist had seen the petrified penis of the poofter peruvian prince.
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