Cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright.
Roget 824:
excite,
affect,
touch,
move,
impress,
strike,
interest,
animate,
inspire,
impassion,
smite,
infect;
stir the blood,
fire the blood,
warm the blood;
set astir;
wake,
awake,
awaken;
call forth;
evoke,
provoke;
raise up,
summon up,
call up,
wake up,
blow up,
get up,
light up;
raise;
get up the steam,
rouse,
arouse,
stir;
fire,
kindle,
enkindle,
apply the torch,
set on fire,
inflame.
stimulate;
exsuscitate†;
inspirit;
spirit up,
stir up,
work up,
pique;
infuse life into,
give new life to;
bring new blood,
introduce new blood;
quicken;
sharpen,
whet;
work upon
etc.
(incite)
615;
hurry on,
give a fillip,
put on one's mettle.
fan the fire,
fan the flame;
blow the coals,
stir the embers;
fan into a flame;
foster,
heat,
warm,
foment,
raise to a fever heat;
keep up,
keep the pot boiling;
revive,
rekindle;
rake up,
rip up.
stir the feelings,
play on the feelings,
come home to the feelings;
touch a string,
touch a chord,
touch the soul,
touch the heart;
go to one's heart,
penetrate,
pierce,
go through one,
touch to the quick;
possess the soul,
pervade the soul,
penetrate the soul,
imbrue the soul,
absorb the soul,
affect the soul,
disturb the soul.
absorb,
rivet the attention;
sink into the mind,
sink into the heart;
prey on the mind,
distract;
intoxicate;
overwhelm,
overpower;
bouleverser [Fr.],
upset,
turn one's head.
fascinate;
enrapture
etc.
(give pleasure)
829.
agitate,
perturb,
ruffle,
fluster,
shake,
disturb,
startle,
shock,
stagger;
give one a shock,
give one a turn;
strike all of a heap;
stun,
astound,
electrify,
galvanize,
petrify.
irritate,
sting;
cut to the heart,
cut to the quick;
try one's temper;
fool to the top of one's bent,
pique;
infuriate,
madden,
make one's blood boil;
lash into fury
etc.
(wrath)
900.
be excited
etc.
adj.;
flush up,
flare up;
catch the infection;
thrill
etc.
(feel)
821;
mantle;
work oneself up;
seethe,
boil,
simmer,
foam,
fume,
flame,
rage,
rave;
run mad
etc.
(passion)
825.
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Roget 860:
fear,
stand in awe of;
be afraid
etc.
adj.;
have qualms
etc.
n.;
apprehend,
sit upon thorns,
eye askance;
distrust
etc.
(disbelieve)
485.
hesitate
etc.
(be irresolute)
605;
falter,
funk,
cower,
crouch;
skulk
etc.
(cowardice)
862;
let 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would'"
[Macbeth]
take fright,
take alarm;
start,
wince,
flinch,
shy,
shrink;
fly
etc.
(avoid)
623.
tremble,
shake;
shiver,
shiver in one's shoes;
shudder,
flutter;
shake like an aspen leaf,
tremble like an aspen leaf,
tremble all over;
quake,
quaver,
quiver,
quail.
grow pale,
turn pale;
blench,
stand aghast;
not dare to say one's soul is one's own.
inspire fear,
excite fear,
inspire awe,
excite awe;
raise apprehensions†;
be in a daze,
bulldoze [U.S.];
faze,
feeze [U.S.];
give an alarm,
raise an alarm,
sound an alarm;
alarm,
startle,
scare,
cry 'wolf',
disquiet,
dismay;
fright,
frighten,
terrify;
astound;
fright from one's propriety;
fright out of one's senses,
fright out of one's wits,
fright out of one's seven senses;
awe;
strike all of a heap,
strike an awe into,
strike terror;
harrow up the soul,
appall,
unman,
petrify,
horrify;
pile on the agony.
make one's flesh creep,
make one's hair stand on end,
make one's blood run cold,
make one's teeth chatter;
take away one's breath,
stop one's breath;
make one tremble
&c.;
haunt;
prey on the mind,
weigh on the mind.
put in fear,
put in bodily fear;
terrorize,
intimidate,
cow,
daunt,
overawe,
abash,
deter,
discourage;
browbeat,
bully;
threaten
etc.
909.
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Roget 870:
wonder,
marvel,
admire;
be surprised
etc.
adj.;
start;
stare;
open one's eyes,
rub one's eyes,
turn up one's eyes;
gloar†;
gape,
open one's mouth,
hold one's breath;
look aghast,
stand aghast,
stand agog;
look blank
etc.
(disappointment)
509;
tombe des nues [Fr.];
not believe one's eyes,
not believe one's ears,
not believe one's senses.
not be able to account for
etc.
(unintelligible)
519;
not know whether one stands on one's head or one's not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels.
surprise,
astonish,
amaze,
astound;
dumfound,
dumfounder;
startle,
dazzle;
daze;
strike,
strike with wonder,
strike with awe;
electrify;
stun,
stupefy,
petrify,
confound,
bewilder,
flabbergast,
stagger,
throw on one's beam ends,
fascinate,
turn the head,
take away one's breath,
strike dumb;
make one's hair stand on end,
make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth;
make one stare.
take by surprise
etc.
(be unexpected)
508.
be wonderful
etc.
adj.;
beggar description,
beggar the imagination,
baffle description;
stagger belief.
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Roget 321:
be dense
etc.
adj.;
become solid,
render solid
etc.
adj.;
solidify,
solidate†;
concrete,
set,
take a set,
consolidate,
congeal,
coagulate;
curd,
curdle;
lopper;
fix,
clot,
cake,
candy,
precipitate,
deposit,
cohere,
crystallize;
petrify
etc.
(harden)
323.
condense,
thicken,
gel,
inspissate†,
incrassate†;
compress,
squeeze,
ram down,
constipate.
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Roget 385:
cool,
fan,
refrigerate,
refresh,
ice;
congeal,
freeze,
glaciate;
benumb,
starve,
pinch,
chill,
petrify,
chill to the marrow,
regelate†,
nip,
cut,
pierce,
bite,
make one's teeth chatter,
damp,
slack quench;
put out,
stamp out;
extinguish;
go out,
burn out
(incombustibility)
388.1.
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Dutch: fossiliseren, petrificeren, verstenen