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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of horrify.

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Examples

  • For example, a horror story that horrifies is a success as horror, even if it is a failure in terms of sheer story-telling, the story as it would be with the horror element stripped out.

    Rothfuss on Genre Fiction 2007

  • I have so much money that we can buy a house in Venice, on the Ghetto; and we shall, too, and I will live there with you, and will become a Jew, and take another name, for my own name horrifies me.

    The Youth of the Great Elector 1843

  • So I can sort of understand how music isn’t as present in your life, although it kind of horrifies me and I’m mentally making another mark in the “cons” list for having children.

    #84 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics « 1979 Semi-Finalist… 2008

  • This illustration horrifies me, as does the name they have invented for Mary.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • This illustration horrifies me, as does the name they have invented for Mary.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • This illustration horrifies me, as does the name they have invented for Mary.

    Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011

  • This tiny country faced the devil in 1994, She lost over 1M people to genocide but what horrifies most is that those genociders thought they were doing good service to their Country.

    DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible' 2010

  • Daniel researches his role as Christ, gathers a motley cast of veteran players, and mounts a daring and provocative re-telling of the Biblical tale that horrifies Le Clerc but becomes a smash hit in Quebec.

    John Farr: Getting Religion: The Ten Best Films on Faith John Farr 2011

  • The possibility students might follow the advice horrifies Erika Paul, a B.C.

    Rabbit or Ramen Noodles? 2009

  • Note, she did not use the unmodified word democracy, which apparently horrifies the legislators, she used: “our democracy.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics 2010

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