horrify
US: /ˈhɔɹəˌfaɪ/
UK: /hˈɒɹɪfˌaɪ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
horrify /'hɔrifai/- ngoại động từ
- làm khiếp sợ, làm kinh khiếp
- làm kinh tởm, làm khó chịu
Advanced English dictionary
+ verb(horrifies, horrifying, horrified, horrified) to make sb feel extremely shocked, disgusted or frightened
Synonym: APPAL
[VN] The whole country was horrified by the killings. + [VN to inf] It horrified her to think that he had killed someone. [also VN that]
horrified adjective: He was horrified when he discovered the conditions in which they lived. + She gazed at him in horrified disbelief.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 terrify, frighten, scare, alarm, intimidate, panic, scare or frighten to death, petrify, Colloq scare or frighten the living daylights out of, scare stiff, make (someone's) hair stand on end, make (someone's or the) blood run cold, curl (someone's) hair, scare the pants off:
I was horrified to see the attack dogs racing towards me.
2 shock, startle, upset, put off, outrage, dismay, appal, distress, discountenance, disconcert:
I was horrified to hear that you weren't coming to my party.
Concise dictionary
horrified|horrifies|horrifying'hɑrɪfaɪ ,'hɔ- /hɒ'r-verb
+fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
