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Definition of Gorgonize
1. v. t. To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify.
Definition of Gorgonize
1. Verb. To stupefy, paralyze or petrify ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gorgonize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgonize
Literary usage of Gorgonize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Words and Their Ways in English Speech by James Bradstreet Greenough, George Lyman Kittredge (1901)
"Hence ' to glare like a basilisk' means to stare at one with a petrifying or
annihilating glance, like Tennyson's gorgonize. ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1849)
"... grey fur that served for eyebrows, and looked at the frozen Lear as if he
would gorgonize him on the spot, and stop the morion of his one arm forever. ..."
3. Irene the Missionary by John William De Forest (1879)
"... tried to gorgonize him with her big black eyes, but the wicked old man was
looking another way at the moment, and did not turn into stone. ft r 5 twenty ..."
4. Dictionary of Hard Words by Robert Morris Pierce (1910)
"(of a gorgon ; gorgon-like) gez'goo-ni-an. gorgonize v. petrify or gaze at in
the manner of a ..."
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