Meanings
present singular third person horrorizes · participle present horrorizing · participle past horrorized · past horrorized
- transitivenon-native speakers' EnglishTo fill with horror.
Ely's method was to enlarge himself by praising up his cousin and to pleasure himself by horrorizing the men with true faithful portrayals of pirates caught and hanged, […]
1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 1081 more example
Their ruthless divinities portrayed them as an uncivilized people with extremely low morality by letting these small gods terrorize and horrorize the common people with uncommon sense and vicious brutality.
1997, Raji Dabit, War & Peace: Between Israel & Its Neighbors, page 2Synonyms: horrify
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo fill with horror.
Origin
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