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Horrify

//ˈhɔɹəfaɪ// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

    "The haunted house horrified me, as I passed from one room to the next feeling more and more like I wasn’t going to survive."

  2. 2
    fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised wordnet

Etymology

From horror + -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.

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