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horrified

/hawr-uh-fahyd, hor-/US // ˈhɔr əˌfaɪd, ˈhɒr- //UK // (ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪd) //

骇人听闻,惊恐的,惊骇的,骇人听闻的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : showing or indicating great shock or horror: a horrified gasp; a horrified expression.
    • : accompanied or characterized by a feeling of horror: horrified interest.
    • : struck with horror; shocked: horrified and outraged spectators.

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Examples

  • When it emerges that said do has a taste for blood, its horrified host becomes tangled in a conspiracy with roots in slave folklore and capitalist hierarchy.

  • He appeared to be in his community, surrounded by horrified people, many of them young.

  • I was pretty horrified by how disconnected so many of our representatives are from the future of our economy and working families, how divided they are in fighting instead of problem-solving.

  • As polio symptoms started manifesting in people who had taken the vaccine, horrified regulators pulled thousands of doses from shelves.

  • In the video, a group of horrified onlookers demanded to know where the woman was being taken.

  • I was, she diagnosed, half joking and half horrified, a “digital hoarder.”

  • And when he shaved clean the perfectly coiffed hair, she was viscerally horrified.

  • “My grandmother was horrified, she really wanted me to lead a wonderful life,” Vreeland says now.

  • The queen was so horrified that all her blood rushed to her heart when she realized that Little Snow White was alive once again.

  • Her heartbroken and horrified brother, Sam Jones, made the identification.

  • Consequently the horrified spectators, having for a moment looked on aghast, fled precipitately from the room.

  • But Weirmarsh, with his innate cunning, presented to him a picture of exposure and degradation which held him horrified.

  • Startled and horrified, Georgie had become in regard to her cousin, that born intriguer, but as clay in the hands of the potter.

  • Was it any wonder that she was horrified when she recalled that gruesome episode of the death of a brave and honest man?

  • One of them was when he had proposed to adopt a Belgian child, and Aunt Harriet had offered horrified protest.