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horrify

[hawr-uh-fahy, hor-] / ˈhɔr əˌfaɪ, ˈhɒr- /


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"That horrified me, I just thought these people deserve a wee bit of respect."

From BBC

But each time, within just a few days, she says she eats so much food she's left "completely horrified".

From BBC

Following the attack in Australia last weekend, Ben told me he was "horrified, but not surprised," saying it followed a pattern of the "global frenzy of antisemitism".

From BBC

“If an outsider looked into the family, they might be horrified with what the person will put up with,” Lembke says.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Ms. Sweeney and Ms. Seyfried it provides an endless variety of opportunities to run through the soap-opera playbook of screaming, cowering, deceiving and attacking depending on the circumstances, which grow increasingly horrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal