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Horrify   /hˈɔrəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Horrify

verb
(past & past part. horrified; pres. part. horrifying)
1.
Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.  Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay.  "The news of the executions horrified us"






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"Horrify" Quotes from Famous Books



... draws up the curtain, will at length disclose every thing. If the villanies of a petty despot and his catamite horrify thee, what wilt thou think when thou seest men who have a thousand times more power, and consequently will, to commit evil? We have, as yet, only removed the first skin of the monster: what will become of thee when we tear open his breast? Soon would He, ...
— Faustus - his Life, Death, and Doom • Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger



Words linked to "Horrify" :   frighten, shock, scare, alarm, affright, fright, horror, appall, appal



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