Meanings
adjectivehorrorstruck (comparative more horrorstruck, superlative most horrorstruck)
comparative more horrorstruck · superlative most horrorstruck
- alternativeAlternative form of horror-struck.
The others were horrorstruck and fled in all directions.
1926, Felix Salten, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, page 2761 more example
I am horrorstruck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
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