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Definition of Horrify
1. Verb. Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised. "The bad news will horrify him"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
Generic synonyms: Affright, Fright, Frighten, Scare
Specialized synonyms: Shock
Derivative terms: Alarm, Alarmist, Dismay, Horror
Definition of Horrify
1. v. t. To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.
Definition of Horrify
1. Verb. To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horrify
1. to cause to feel horror [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horrify
Literary usage of Horrify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The coral island by Robert Michael Ballantyne (1884)
"... meditations Interrupted by volcanic agency—The pirates negotiate with a Feejee
chief—Various etceteras that are calculated to surprise and horrify. ..."
2. The Medical Times and Gazette (1863)
"JUST at this season the luxurious readers of newspapers, greedy of "sensation,"
love to horrify themselves with, accounts of poor wretches thronging the ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1868)
"This is a very pleasant and instructive interlude ; but you were going to say
something which would horrify us. I join with Mauleverer, and maintain that it ..."
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