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curdle; petrify; get stupid; grow stupid; grow numb; freeze (Pickman); seize up (intransitive form Liv Bliss); become rigid; go numb (with); startle; stop dead (figure of speech Val_Ships); become numb; go still (juribt); benumb | |||
grow torpid (pf of цепенеть); go numb with (pf of цепенеть) | |||
be like a rabbit caught in the headlights (to be so surprised or frightened that you cannot move or think • Each time the directors asked Alan a question he looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights. | |||
stand transfixed (Andrey Truhachev); caught in a daze (valery5) | |||
become freeze; go numb | |||
clutch (от страха, волнения) | |||
be paralyzed (Andrey Truhachev) | |||
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be like a deer caught in the headlights (to be visibly startled and frozen in fear or in surprise • I was like a deer caught in the headlights when my mom asked about that hideous sweater she gave me. • When the security alarm started blaring, the burglar was like a deer caught in the headlights. • My parents found me trying to sneak out, and what could I say? I was like a deer caught in the headlights. | |||
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numbly (He stared numbly at Riddle... NarcissusTheReborn); torpidly; dazedly | |||
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benumbed; stupefied; numb; torpid; cataleptic; drowsy; stupid; dazed; dozened; dozy; dull; musty; torpent; stunned | |||
dead |
оцепенело : 22 phrases in 5 subjects |
Figurative | 1 |
Figure of speech | 1 |
General | 16 |
Literature | 1 |
Makarov | 3 |