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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Horrify \Hor"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Horrified}; p. pr & vb n. {Horrifying}.] [L. horrificare See {Horrific}.] To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as the sight horrified the beholders. --E. Irving. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: horrifying adj : provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious}, {frightful}, {horrible}, {ugly}]
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