Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horrify \Hor"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Horrified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Horrifying.] [L. horrificare. See Horrific.]
To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror;
as, the sight horrified the beholders.
--E. Irving.
Wiktionary
tend to inspire horror; that horrify; horrific. v
(present participle of horrify English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "horrifying".
What the black stripes on acetate had delineated with clinical detachment, the photographs in the book revealed with horrifying detail: limbless embryos, Cyclopean fetuses, hydrocephalic stillborn children.
Many of the tales of the weird, horrifying, and supernatural written by Bradbury are derived from his childhood fears and are set in midwestern Waukegan.
The external temperature gauge soared to a horrifying 350 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt lead.
When the Comanche was close enough to launch his attack, he shrieked his fierce war cry, a haunting, horrifying sound intended to freeze his victim.
Minister Deferens had ordered complete radio silence, the news had been horrifying.
Magical, mythological in its scope, Fall on Your Knees transports us into a reality, at once horrifying and familiar, that we cannot bear to turn away from.
Many of the fights are simply lost by the blunders of Federal commanders, the most horrifying example at Fredericksburg.
The gags used to prevent their screaming had become more subtle and precise, the ties that secured them to the beams more elaborate and sure, their imprisonment longer, their deaths ever more horrifying.
During that time Christianity had experienced huge growth in its followers and in the numbers of churches dedicated to the worship of Christ, often through a reconsecration of temples to the pagan gods, the former sites of horrifying orgiastic festivals and sacrifices.
She would never know it, of course, but she had given me the strangest, darkest, most horrifying idea of my life.
Issie evidently agreed with the wise old midwives of canalside, for the closer came the day that Maria was due, the more horrifying became the tales the old woman dragged out of her memory.
And now he recognized the subtle hyperemanations of desperation that also seemed to rise miasmalike from the cities as Earth was carried more boldly, inexorably out of the Styg-umbra and as additional thousands everywhere were experiencing their first horrifying seizures of rault sensitivity.
It parks on top of us for two or three horrifying days, dumping enough rain to flood most neighborhoods to ruin.
Gross, horrifying, wattles of excess flesh flouncing on its jowly face, it advanced across the courtyard.
A specific person, a girl with a face and a name and two yellow pigtails, would have been so much less horrifying than the phantom pair of eleven-year-old girls who flitted across the news pages and danced on the tongues of shocked-looking anchorwomen.