horrify
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/
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/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/ · /ˈhɔɹəfaɪ/
Definition of horrify
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From horror + -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.
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