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horrify
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay , alarm , appal , appall ] [also: horrified ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1791 (implied in horrifying ), from horror + -fy . Related: Horrified ; horrifying .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES too dreadful/horrifying etc to contemplate ▪ The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB when ▪ Jane was horrified when she learned the truth. ▪ I was horrified ...
Usage examples of horrify.
We all looked on with horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade could have gone.
It was later discovered that Japanese scientists subjected Chinese prisoners of war to horrifying experiments with such lethal bioagents as anthrax, cholera, typhoid, and plague.
Her eyes were widespread in an expression of horrified anticipation and fixed directly upon me as I came in sight above the edge of the deck.
VIDEO ROOM - SAME TIME Barnes and Ted watch, horrified, powerless, as Fletcher disappears in the cloud of jellyfish.
Equally determined that no such horrifying revelation should be made, Pauline Whittle and her husband were clinging grimly to the edges of the pillowcase, and so successful were their joint efforts that, by the sheer weight of their bodies, Quintus Bland was borne off center and crumpled clatteringly back in his chair.
John braving the North Atlantic in winter, and the very real possibility of his capture at sea, horrified her.
Few were ever followers of Nathan Holn, and most were probably horrified when their fantasies at last came true.
Horrified at the prospect of being preceded into a drinking place by a woman, Macro clumsily thrust himself between the woman and the door.
This idea of your marrying her horrifies me, but I cannot oppose it, as I am ashamed to tell the reason.
Timothy Mears on his final horrifying mission, and Honor realized he was right.
Timothy Meares on his final horrifying mission, and Honor realized he was right.
Accordingly, he bid me don my patent leather boots, and was horrified to find that I wanted to put on gloves of peau de chamois.
Mattie had a horrifying vision of how embarrassing it would be if Penworth walked into the room just after William proposed again.
The most horrifying and physically dangerous preferential child molester, though, is the sadistic type.
Hexam and Helena Landless, because that sort of tough, aggressive woman is seen in Miss Pross and taken to horrifying extremes in Madame Defarge.