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单词 horrid
释义
horridhor‧rid /ˈhɒrɪd $ ˈhɔː-, ˈhɑː-/ adjective especially British English Word Origin
WORD ORIGINhorrid
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin horridus ‘rough, hairy’, from horrere; HORROR
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a horrid little boy
  • The dogs were raised in horrid conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A slithering of chains, a horrid steel-on-stone sound, and three steps to match.
  • By the July Fourth holiday, conditions in the forest probably will have deteriorated beyond horrid.
  • Every soldier in the field saw crippling and horrid injuries, and one can imagine the impact that had.
  • He was always a horrid little boy for all his pretty face, and now he's a horrid man.
  • Her uterus became distended, causing her horrid pain.
  • They have a horrid vision of Mr John Smith raising inflation from the dead with the blessing of our Euro-competitors.
1 informal very unpleasant SYN  nasty:  a horrid smell2 old-fashioned behaving in a nasty unkind way:  Don’t be so horrid!
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