adjective
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.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the dreadfulness of the sounds was intensified by the horrifying nearness of those agonised voices.
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Her daughter says it's a horrifying attack.
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She should move away, or at least sit forward, but the horrifying part was that she liked it.
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The Department of Transport believes the warm weather encourages more drink-driving ... with horrifying results.
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The film is but one version of some horrifying events, and stretched poetic licence to the extreme.
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The reports about how people died make horrifying reading.
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Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal, during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding £175,000 ransom.
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There are several others with oddities of translation, but many more with careless, and even horrifying , mistakes by printers.