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Meanings of horrify in English

Portuguese
alarmar
Catalan
horroritzar
Spanish
horrorizar

Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.

alarmar
Usage of horrify in English
1
And, of course, there were my radar-dish ears to horrify the ladies.
Riding rockets
2
A frightful accident like this affects, upsets, terrifies; it does not horrify.
Original Short Stories — Volume 01
3
A frightful accident like this moves, upsets, scares; it does not horrify.
The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
4
Sport might horrify us, but it still draws us in even more.
The Guardian
5
Nettie wanted to scream, to horrify them all with some outrageous remark.
Java Head
6
I knew much of this; but it did not horrify me.
The Californians
7
A cursory engagement with social media will horrify most of us.
The Irish Times
8
I am-andthis does horrify some people, I guess- arolemodel.
The double bind
9
The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots.
Poems by Walt Whitman
10
I wanted to murder them in ways that would horrify you to hear.
Unravel Me
11
It will never cease to horrify some readers and delight others.
The Guardian
12
This, no doubt, would horrify the acute, analytical minds of the Latin races.
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
13
Nor could anything he said, nor anything he may have become, horrify me.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
14
What a trim little maid brings in the top-boots which horrify Mrs. B!
John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character
15
The answer to that question would horrify all those who have ever known him.
Wired
16
The idea used to horrify us, but now more of us are doing it.
The Irish Times
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Translations for horrify
Spanish
horrorizar
Horrify through the time
Horrify across language varieties
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