Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
horror-struck
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He glanced swiftly around and was horror-struck.
▪ The governor's white-gloved hand froze in mid-flourish and for a second he stared horror-struck at the chattering animal.
▪ Time froze and events unrolled before Meredith's horror-struck gaze as if in a slow-motion and silent film.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horror-struck
Horror-struck \Hor"ror-struck`\, a.
Horror-stricken; horrified.
--M. Arnold.
Wiktionary
horror-struck
a. horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated
WordNet
horror-struck
adj. stricken with horror [syn: horrified, horror-stricken]
Usage examples of "horror-struck".
I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
But before Nancy could reach him, she was horror-struck to see a large pole on a truck next to the boy begin to slide.