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horrifying

US // (ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪɪŋ) //

可怕的,骇人听闻,骇人听闻的,令人震惊的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing feelings of horror in; awful; terrifying;
    • : dismaying or greatly shocking; dreadful

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Examples

  • On the show, it led to this half-comical, half-horrifying, but 100 percent amazing moment.

  • It is a near certainty that jailed gays and lesbians face horrifying violence in prison.

  • The wrestling fans are “incredibly horrifying when you age,” Madusa, now 50, wrote.

  • Among them were some horrifying images of severe damage to nasal tissue caused by a child lodging a button battery in her nose.

  • Visitors to the sea park reported hearing “horrifying screams” and loud sounds of splashing water.

  • Her face was horrifying with its intensity of pathetic regret.

  • Jack the Ripper was a fiend in human form that was killing women continually in the most horrifying manner and in cold blood.

  • The execution of the Duc d'Enghien was so horrifying to Chateaubriand that he forthwith resigned his appointments.

  • Somehow, telling it to someone else, it seemed at once even less real but more horrifying as a possible danger to Jill.

  • I have never heard a more horrifying scream than that which he uttered.