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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
horrific
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brutal/horrific murder (=violent and cruel)
▪ He is wanted for the brutal murder of a young girl.
a horrible/nasty/horrific accident
▪ We narrowly avoided a nasty accident.
▪ ‘This was an absolutely horrific accident,’ said an ambulance spokesman.
a horrific attack
▪ 'This was a horrific attack,' said Detective Chief Superintendent Ron Astles.
a horrific/terrible/appalling crash
▪ a horrific crash in which three teenage boys were killed
a terrible/horrific crime (also a dreadful crime British English)
▪ What made him commit such a terrible crime?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ It was the most horrific thing.
▪ My labouring minutes were occupied with fantasies of the most horrific kind.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years, her head full of horrific accidents.
attack
▪ The horrific attack happened in Middlesbrough as the victim was walking along an unlit path.
▪ Today's horrific attack in Castlerock underlines once again the scale of the task facing Gordon Wilson.
▪ Later, experts were divided over whether two horrific attacks in just five days meant more could be expected.
▪ Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack, said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo.
crime
▪ All these men are guilty of horrific crimes.
▪ It was linked with the Manson murders in 1969 and several other horrific crimes.
injury
▪ Sixty-six pre-Christmas revellers also suffered horrific injuries when a no-warning bomb exploded in the middle of the packed Ballykelly pub.
▪ There were some very horrific injuries amongst them.
▪ He suffered horrific injuries, and few thought he'd survive.
▪ Even the humble sparkler can cause horrific injuries when combined with a highly flammable shell suit.
▪ But these batting efforts were overshadowed in the dying minutes, when David Lawrence suffered an horrific injury.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He lost his legs in a horrific car crash.
▪ It was a horrific experience. We really thought we were going to die.
▪ The race was stopped after a horrific accident in which two drivers were killed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ferrie suffered from a rare and horrific condition that had no cure.
▪ He suffered horrific injuries, and few thought he'd survive.
▪ Police believe the trap could have had far more horrific consequences, especially for younger riders.
▪ The beauty spot brings back horrific memories for the couple; memories of a night they were not meant to survive.
▪ There were more horrific details in the newspaper every day more than now.
▪ They went off right and did something horrific, while the grunts below confirmed McFall was finding the start no easier.
▪ Would most multiple rapists have received only seven years for such horrific offences?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horrific

Horrific \Hor*rif"ic\, a. [L. horrifieus; horrere to be horrible + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. horrifique. See Horror, -fy.] Causing horror; frightful.

Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed.
--I. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
horrific

"causing horror," 1650s, from French horrifique or directly from Latin horrificus "dreadful, exciting terror," literally "making the hair stand on end," from horrere "to bristle, to stand on end" (see horror) + -ficus, from stem of facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Horrifically.

Wiktionary
horrific

a. horrifying, causing horror; horrible.

WordNet
horrific
  1. adj. grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, outrageous]

  2. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, terrible]

Usage examples of "horrific".

Leaning her forehead against the cool iron railing, Bree released the tidal wave of regret, for the horrific present, for the loss of the past.

Over the years the chief Sorceress had seen a great many of her surrogate daughters march off to their deaths, martyring themselves in order to score important victories against the horrific cymeks.

In other words, low prothrombin remained the problem, not the more horrific DIC, at least so far.

To begin planning the most horrific act of terror ever contemplated, Ramzi Yousef called on the two men who were closest to him: his uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his lifelong friend from Kuwait Abdul Hakim Murad.

She watched the horrific looking unblessed goblins staring at her with both disgust and curiosity.

It was a warmish day, although nothing like what was to come in the horrific Washington summertime.

It winds up dying several times and experiencing the horrific stress of the Bataan Death March.

Something horrific that howled and writhed and roared through empty space within an area that was three hundred million light-years across and one hundred million megaparsecs in volume.

Grimnebulin and we will defeat these moths, these horrific night-creatures, these soul-drinkers, and he will create of me a battery.

His helmet was likewise fashioned from the finest, smoothest steel, engraved with scenes that were less than usually horrific.

It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now.

Even when she turned and caught sight of the frozen young face staring from the monstrous edifice in front of her to the horrific intimacy of the double washstand with the green marble top and the waterlily shaped toiletware, she did not comprehend.

The very name Warminster sounds vaguely horrific, hinting at an insubstantial clash of good and evil going on yesterday, today and evermore.

Queen of Crime Found Murdered Bestselling American thriller writer Jane Elias has been brutally murdered in a horrific crime that mirrors the gruesome violence of her own work, police in County Wicklow revealed today.

I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my callup, dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and 71 72ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL water running in and out of bath tubs.