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horrify

verb as in scare

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Example Sentences

There's a captive audience for TV shows starring people who horrify us with their behavior.

But it cannot surprise anyone at this point that the sorts of things that horrify decent people do not horrify Ron Paul.

Understanding is not sanction: these crimes still have the power to anger and horrify.

Every day, newspapers and television outlets battled to see who could horrify more people with fewer words.

This idea—becoming part of the star machine in any way—seems to horrify Friend.

When the whole story comes to be told it will horrify the world.

Let a crisis arise, and you never know who may not surprise and horrify you by showing the cloven hoof.

Elliott chuckled to realize how such a sentiment would horrify Aunt Margaret.

Doubtless such a triumph would horrify Tolstoi, and he would not like to acknowledge that it might be truly useful.

The sight of it seemed at first to horrify but afterwards to soothe the forlorn being thus brought face to face with her own past.

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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to horrify, such as: alarm, daunt, disgust, dismay, frighten, and intimidate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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