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Definition of horrify : To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.

Synonyms:

outrage, study at dismay, appall, scandalize, daunt, depress, alert, shock, dispirit, cast down, appal, demoralise, get down, deject, consternate, fear, shake, demoralize, dismay, scandalise, offend

frighten, alarm, panic, haunt, rattle, petrify, threaten, scare, disturb, harrow, set on edge, unnerve, agitate, intimidate, terrify

spook

Usage examples:

• Fred was quite as confidential with his mother as she with her father, and the boy had been wild to horrify Mrs. Hargrove by an account of his sister's adventure. - "Nature's Serial Story", E. P. Roe.
• Horrors heaped upon horrors, and which are horrors only in themselves, and not as touching any recognised and known person, are not tragic, and soon cease even to horrify. - "Autobiography of Anthony Trollope", Anthony Trollope.
• Looking over the lectures again they horrify me with their loud- mouthed imbecility! - "Notes of a Son and Brother", Henry James.