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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



... that first day he lay there with his thoughts for company and a process, deepening, as dusk deepened, into remorse began to horrify him. He fought with all his might against it. He resented it with indignation. His gorge rose against it; he would have strangled it, had it been a ponderable thing within his power to destroy; but as time passed he ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... revelation of the real facts of human experience is of the highest value to the world. It is one of God's witnesses to truth, that truth will out. Sooner or later, selfishness and sin will appear in their naked deformity, to horrify those who behold them; and in the end, justice and truth and love are certain to be made manifest in their natural beauty, to convince and to charm and ...
— Our Master • Bramwell Booth

... with powerful human passions in no lethargic way. It may horrify by its brutality, and its assault on ordinary morality may well be considered startling: yet it counts for something that M. Artzibashef does not display the common ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef

... now in his turn "officer of the deck," accordingly descended to the cabin, where they found the table covered with coffee and tea, minus milk; cold salt beef, cut into slices, of a thickness that would horrify a whole community of fashionable ladies and gentlemen, allowing that so exceedingly vulgar an article of "provent" as salt beef did not previously throw them into hysterics as soon as presented to ...
— An Old Sailor's Yarns • Nathaniel Ames

... gradually to it. Translate yourself back into your unawakened state. How did you live then? The very things that now cause you such distress, you practised every day, and they gave you no concern. The things that horrify you now, in the very thought or temptation to them, you then were daily practising without compunction. You had no hatred to, no dread of sin. You were willing bondslaves of Satan. Now, you are his unwilling slave. Then, ...
— Godliness • Catherine Booth


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