petrify, fetish, decoy

petrify

[T] to ​frighten someone a lot, ​especially so that they are ​unable to ​move or ​speak:  겁에 질리게 하다I ​think you petrified ​poor Frazer - he never said a word the ​whole​time you were here.
pecialized geology [I] If ​dead things petrify, they ​change to a ​substance like ​stone over a ​long ​period of ​time. 석화하다
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fetish noun [C] (INTEREST)

› psychology a ​sexual ​interest in an ​object or a ​part of the ​body other than the ​sexual ​organs: 성적 쾌감을 느끼게 하는 물건들a ​rubber/​foot fetish   He has a fetish for/about high ​heels.› psychology an ​activity or ​object that you are so ​interested in that you ​spend an ​unreasonable ​amount of ​time ​thinking about it or doing it: She makes a fetish of ​organization - it's ​quite ​obsessive.[그 사람은(그녀는) 정돈하는 거에 병적으로 집착하는데 너무 과한거 같아..]
He has a fetish for/about ​cleanliness. (깨끗하게 하는 거에 병적으로 집착한다.)
He had a fetish about ​clothes.

fetish noun [C] (RELIGIOUS OBJECT)

› specialized religion an ​object that is ​worshipped in some ​societies because it is ​believed to have a ​spirit or ​special​magical ​powers  => 주물, 숭배의 대상, 신성한 힘이 깃들었다고 믿어지는 것.
He stressed that all purchases, because they always signify something socially, have their fetishistic side.
fetishism

fetishistic

 -----------------------------------------------------------something or someone used to ​trick or ​confuse other ​people or ​animals into doing something, ​especially something ​dangerous:They used a ​girl hitch-hiker as the decoy to get him to ​stop.
something used to ​trick or ​confuse a ​person or ​animal:He ​carves ​duck decoys for hunters.--------------------------------------------------------------------------Saddam liquidates the communists, Moscow flirts even more with him; he gases the Kurds, it is not held against him; he eliminates the religious cadres, the whole of Islam makes peace with him ... Even ... the 100,000 dead will only have been the final decoy that Saddam will have sacrificed, the blood money paid in forfeit according to a calculated equivalence, in order to preserve his power. What is worse is that these dead still serve as an alibi for those who do not want to have been excited for nothing: at least these dead will prove this war was indeed a war and not a shameful and pointless hoax ...