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horrify

Syllables: hor·ri·fyUK/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ//ˈhɔɹəfaɪ/

horrify verb: to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

Verb

horrify (third-person singular simple present horrifies, present participle horrifying, simple past and past participle horrified)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    frighten

horrify meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

horrify in Tamil

திடுக்கிடச் செய், அச்ச மூட்டு, அச்சுறுத்து

horrify in Urdu

ڈرانا, ہول پیدا کرنا

horrify in Bengali

আতঙ্কিত করা, অত্যন্ত ভীত, মর্মাহত করা

horrify in Malayalam

ഞെട്ടിപ്പിക്കുക, ഭയം ജനിപ്പിക്കുക, മര്യാദകേടു കാണിക്കുക
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horrify in Kannada
ಭಯಹುಟ್ಟಿಸು, ಗಾಬರಿಪಡಿಸು, ಚಕಿತಗೊಳಿಸು, ದಿಗ್ಭ್ರಮೆ ಹಿಡಿಸು

Examples of horrify in a sentence

  • The horrifying tales he told made my hair stand on end.
  • I was horrified by their sheeplike acquiescence.
  • I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life.

All 35 example sentences with horrify

Synonyms of horrify

Forms of horrify

third-person singular presenthorrifies
present participlehorrifying
past participlehorrified
pasthorrified

Past tense of horrify: horrified

Origin of horrify

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

Words formed from horrify

Questions about horrify

What does horrify mean?
Horrify means to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
What is horrify in Tamil?
Horrify in Tamil is திடுக்கிடச் செய், அச்ச மூட்டு, அச்சுறுத்து. See Horrify meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is horrify?
Horrify is a verb.
How do you pronounce horrify?
Horrify is pronounced /ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of horrify?
The past tense of horrify is horrified.

Words near horrify in the dictionary

  1. horrified
  2. horrifiedly
  3. horrifier
  4. horrifiers
  5. horrifies
  6. horrify
  7. horrifying
  8. horrifyingly
  9. Horrigan
  10. Horrigans
  11. horrigible

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horrify (page history and authors); horrify (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horrify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Horrify (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horrify (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horrify (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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