| 单词 | horrifying |
| 释义 | horrifying (once / 7949 pages) adj Horrifying things are scary and disturbing. A car crash, a violent scene in a movie, and an exposé on what's really in your fast food hamburger can all be described as horrifying. Something that scares you to death, like the sound of footsteps upstairs in your dark, empty house or the sight of a bear on the hiking trail, is horrifying. Equally horrifying are things that sicken you, like photographs from a battlefield or the description of a painful dental procedure. Horrifying things inspire horror, originally a Latin word meaning both "dread" and "religious awe," from horrere, "to bristle with fear." WORD FAMILYhorrifying: horrifyingly+/horrified: horrifiedly/horrify: horrified, horrifies, horrifying/horror: horrify, horrors USAGE EXAMPLESAnd 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) Hillary Clinton called his answer “horrifying” and said he was “talking down our democracy.” Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) At the IOM’s transit centre, men relay horrifying stories of being robbed or imprisoned for ransoms. Economist(Oct 20, 2016) adj provoking horror an alarming, even horrifying, picture Syn atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger |
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