horrify
verb /ˈhɒrɪfaɪ/
/ˈhɔːrɪfaɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they horrify | /ˈhɒrɪfaɪ/ /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪ/ |
| he / she / it horrifies | /ˈhɒrɪfaɪz/ /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪz/ |
| past simple horrified | /ˈhɒrɪfaɪd/ /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪd/ |
| past participle horrified | /ˈhɒrɪfaɪd/ /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪd/ |
| -ing form horrifying | /ˈhɒrɪfaɪɪŋ/ /ˈhɔːrɪfaɪɪŋ/ |
- to make somebody feel extremely shocked or frightened synonym appal
- horrify somebody The whole country was horrified by the killings.
- it horrifies somebody to do something It horrified her to think that he had killed someone.
- it horrifies somebody that… It horrified her that he had actually killed someone.
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from Latin horrificare, from horrificus, from horrere ‘tremble, shudder’.