| 单词 | horrify |
| 释义 | horrify (once / 962 pages) v To horrify is to cause someone to feel shocked and disturbed. It may horrify your parents if you announce that you're dropping out of school to become a professional clown. Things that horrify you fill you with terror, shock, or disgust. It would horrify you to run into a vampire on a dark city streets, and it would also horrify you to be served raw hamburger for lunch. The emotion that arises when something horrifies you is horror, a word that's the same in Latin, with the literal meaning "a shaking, a trembling, or a shudder." WORD FAMILYhorrify: horrified, horrifies, horrifying+/horrified: horrifiedly/horrifying: horrifyingly/horror: horrify, horrors USAGE EXAMPLESHorrified by the idea that women should concern themselves with such base matters, the hapless agony uncle skedaddled. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) The security lapse left Mrs Thatcher "utterly horrified". BBC(Dec 29, 2016) And yet the idea of “people swanning in paying $30,000 just to knock off a few crocs” was equally horrifying to locals, Leu says. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) v fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview The news of the executions horrified us Syn|Hypo|Hyper alarm, appal, appall, dismay shock strike with horror or terror affright, fright, frighten, scare cause fear in |
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