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Meanings of horrify in English
Synonyms
Examples for "alarm"
Examples for "alarm"
1
Sound the alarm: the good old-fashioned relationship is under attack from technology.
2
My good mood gave way to alarm, because she looked so serious.
3
By July last year, the project manager for Choice was expressing alarm.
4
The delay in the peace negotiations is causing considerable alarm in Europe.
5
She was able to free herself and raise the alarm, he said.
1
Former congressional colleagues expressed dismay at the news reports following the indictment.
2
How can we account for this widespread fear and dismay in Europe?
3
Bereaved family members reacted with dismay to the level of the fine.
4
The succession of Ferdinand excited especial dismay and indignation in the Palatinate.
5
Of course, as Pandora discovered to her dismay, even openness has consequences.
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He stood as one apart-a lonely watcher whom no danger could appal.
2
You appal me sometimes; how can you even speak of it?'
3
President Donald Trump's travails in office continue to fascinate and appal.
4
The Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, said he was shocked and appalled.
5
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There was a young poet from Donegal, whose writing could only appall.
2
The gloomy forests of the big trees appall the stray traveller.
3
And the fact of it didn't appall him as he thought it should.
4
In the path of God no errors can appall, no troubles dismay him.
5
A Napoleon in petticoats, she was about to appall the confederation.
Usage of horrify in English
1
And, of course, there were my radar-dish ears to horrify the ladies.
2
A frightful accident like this affects, upsets, terrifies; it does not horrify.
3
A frightful accident like this moves, upsets, scares; it does not horrify.
4
Sport might horrify us, but it still draws us in even more.
5
Nettie wanted to scream, to horrify them all with some outrageous remark.
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I knew much of this; but it did not horrify me.
7
A cursory engagement with social media will horrify most of us.
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I am-andthis does horrify some people, I guess- arolemodel.
9
The attitude of great poets is to cheer up slaves and horrify despots.
10
I wanted to murder them in ways that would horrify you to hear.
11
It will never cease to horrify some readers and delight others.
12
This, no doubt, would horrify the acute, analytical minds of the Latin races.
13
Nor could anything he said, nor anything he may have become, horrify me.
14
What a trim little maid brings in the top-boots which horrify Mrs. B!
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The answer to that question would horrify all those who have ever known him.
16
The idea used to horrify us, but now more of us are doing it.
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