horrify
verbUK /ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/ · CA, US /ˈhɔɹəfaɪ/
Etymology From horror + -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.
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
- Derived terms
- horrification
- Related terms
- horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horror