The announcement was intended to horrify the audience.
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Horrify
//ˈhɔɹəfaɪ//
Synonyms for "horrify" (52 found)
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Related words (26)
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7 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- ужасявам verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- шокирам verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Czech
1 entries- děsit verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Finnish
2 entries- hirvittää verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- kauhistuttaa verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Galician
1 entries- arrepiar verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
German
3 entries- entsetzen verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- erschrecken verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- schockieren verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Latin
1 entries- horrificō verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Romanian
3 entries- oripila verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- înfiora verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
- îngrozi verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Spanish
1 entries- horripilar verb (to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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