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单词 horror-struck
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horror-struck

adjective
If you describe someone as horror-struck or horror-stricken, you mean that they feel very great horror at something that has happened.
'What is the matter with Signora Anna?' he whispered, horror-struck at her vacantface.
Synonyms: horrified, shocked, appalled, petrified More Synonyms of horror-struck

horror-struck in British English

or horror-stricken
adjective
shocked; horrified

horror-struck in American English

(ˈhɔrˌər strʌk)
adjective
struck with horror; horrified
: also ˈhorˌror-stricken (ˈhɔrərˌstrɪkən)

Examples of 'horror-struck' in a sentence
horror-struck

For a moment longer she hung in suspended animation, gazing, horror-struck, at the grisly white vision outside; then she was running.
Trenhalle, John A MEANS TO EVIL (2002)
I gazed, horror-struck, at Rudy as the dreadful truth sunk in: he was obviously a very slow learner but he'd got us both off to a tee.
Isabel Wolff RESCUING ROSE (2002)
unwilling, horror-struck youth with a hurricane-lamp to show me the way, I carried my eggs and milk up the hill to Hafod.
O'Brian, Patrick TESTIMONIES (2002)
By the time she finished, Mary Anne had traveled from horror-struck to aghast.
Stephanie Laurens ALL ABOUT LOVE (2002)
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