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单词 horrifying
释义
horrifyinghor‧ri‧fy‧ing /ˈhɒrəfaɪ-ɪŋ $ ˈhɔː-, ˈhɑː-/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But the dreadfulness of the sounds was intensified by the horrifying nearness of those agonised voices.
  • Her daughter says it's a horrifying attack.
  • She should move away, or at least sit forward, but the horrifying part was that she liked it.
  • The Department of Transport believes the warm weather encourages more drink-driving ... with horrifying results.
  • The film is but one version of some horrifying events, and stretched poetic licence to the extreme.
  • The reports about how people died make horrifying reading.
  • Then came her horrifying eight-day ordeal, during which Sams wrote to her employers demanding £175,000 ransom.
  • There are several others with oddities of translation, but many more with careless, and even horrifying, mistakes by printers.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate.
extremely bad, especially in a way that is frightening or upsetting SYN  horrific:  murder, rape, and other horrifying crimes It’s horrifying to see how much poverty there is here.horrifyingly adverb
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