petrify

To turn to stone: to harden organic matter by permeating with water and depositing dissolved minerals.

a river that petrifies any sort of wood or leaves

To produce rigidity akin to stone.

To immobilize with fright.

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

To become stony, callous, or obdurate.

Like Niobe we marble grow, / And petrify with grief.

Hopes, feelings, and passion, petrify one after another; the crust of experience soon hardens over the hidden past; and who, looking on the levelled and subdued exterior, could dream of the wreck and ravage that lies below?