verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
too dreadful/horrifying etc to contemplate
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The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
when
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Jane was horrified when she learned the truth.
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I was horrified when I saw it!
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some of the students wept, horrified by the Holocaust survivor's stories.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Theresa would probably be horrified to hear.
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Groups representing disabled people were horrified at the proposals.
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I was horrified by her swollen and distended stomach.
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I was horrified to find out later that in fact he had not collected her from school but from the police station.
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Meg watched, fascinated and horrified, as he probed inside the animal, the blood dark on his fingers.
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The President and I exchanged quick, horrified glances.
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You are horrified, you can not think straight, as you stare at the broken body.