petrified

Suspected as much, but still a bit petrified that the shell var/func passed through perl to the backtick-shell.

The same people who are staying inside, petrified of catching swine flu and dying from it.

This boy was still very awake but petrified and shocked by the water's cold.

If you are petrified of dogs, you will (reasonably) pick housing that prohibits pets.

They're petrified of appearing adversarial because they know their access will be cut off.

Or that the Zuni people tried to make sense of the petrified bones and landscape forms by creating a post-hoc story to explain things?

I'm sure he's petrified of Facebook becoming being widely thought of as a for-profit arm of the US intelligence service.

They are in general petrified of places like Redfin, Zillow and Trulia and they do anything in their power to maintain the current business model.

Are they covered in hot grits and naked and petrified?

Anyone petrified of radioactive threats should never be told about the consequences of normal altitude commercial jet flying, unless they're planning on making a career of it.

Deer always seemed constantly petrified to me, but maybe that was because I only saw them at times when I happened to be near.

A petrified dead snake makes a great wand.

Nabokov, a Joyce admirer, called Wake, "that petrified superpun."

Is it because it's held up as an alternative to religion so people are petrified that if there are any holes people will say "sciences knows nothing, back to religion"?

"Petrified By Elementary Physics" Some of these I knew, most I did not.

I found that clients were more amenable to contracts than FTE because they all needed work "for now" but were petrified of commitment since they had no idea what the future would be like.