释义 |
horrifyinghor‧ri‧fy‧ing /ˈhɒrəfaɪ-ɪŋ $ ˈhɔː-, ˈhɑː-/ adjective - 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.
► too dreadful/horrifying etc to contemplate 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 |