horrify
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Add a strict appellation or classification system for France's wine regions, and the thought of blending French and Australian wine to create a global hybrid would horrify many French wine lovers.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2025
The mode of transportation is an especially good opportunity for parents to horrify their teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024
But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.
From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023
But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Such things did not appear to horrify her.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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