dismay vs petrify

dismay

verb
  • To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet. 

  • To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay. 

  • To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy 

noun
  • A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits 

  • Condition fitted to dismay; ruin. 

petrify

verb
  • To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrification. 

  • To produce rigidity akin to stone. 

  • To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits. 

  • To harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals. 

  • To immobilize with fright. 

  • To become stony, callous, or obdurate. 

How often have the words dismay and petrify occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )