HORRIFY


Meaning of HORRIFY in 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 when I saw it!

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Some of the students wept, horrified by the Holocaust survivor's stories.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As Theresa would probably be horrified to hear.

Groups representing disabled people were horrified at the proposals.

I was horrified by her swollen and distended stomach.

I was horrified to find out later that in fact he had not collected her from school but from the police station.

Meg watched, fascinated and horrified, as he probed inside the animal, the blood dark on his fingers.

The President and I exchanged quick, horrified glances.

You are horrified, you can not think straight, as you stare at the broken body.

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