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Definition of Horror-stricken
1. Adjective. Stricken with horror.
Definition of Horror-stricken
1. Adjective. See horror-struck ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horror-stricken
Literary usage of Horror-stricken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiology of Bodily Exercise by Fernand Lagrange (1890)
"... a condition of Overwork — Curious positions of the bodies ; Horror-Stricken
Expressions in Persons who have been Assassinated—Effects of Overwork on the ..."
2. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"... room opened and I saw the whole anteroom full of horror-stricken people.
The report had immediately spread that one of the two officers resident in the ..."
3. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"The supernatural, the spectres evoked by the horror-stricken remembrance of crime,
or hatred against the memory of the wicked, also blend with the ..."
4. Posthumous Memoirs of Karoline Bauer: From the German by Karoline Bauer (1884)
"When the young bride awoke on the morning after the wedding, horror-stricken she
saw her husband beside her gnawing a big ham-bone with brutish ferocity—a ..."
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