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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--gorgonize gorgonize or gorgonise (GOR-guh-nyz) verb tr. To paralyze, petrify, or hypnotize. [After Gorgon, any of the three monstrous sisters Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa in Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair. They turned into stone anyone who looked into their eyes.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Gorgonised me from head to foot With a stony British stare." Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Maud; 1855. This week's theme: allusions and personifications. X-Bonus The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. -Saadi, poet (1213-1291)

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