horrify

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/
• (America) enPR: hôrʹə-fī, IPA: /ˈhɔɹəfaɪ/

Verb

horrify (horrifies, present participle horrifying; past and past participle horrified)

1. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

   The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:frighten

Related terms

• horrible
• horrid
• horrific
• horror
• horrendous

Translations

• German: entsetzen, erschrecken, schockieren
• Spanish: horripilar

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