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HORRIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stricken with horror
Synonyms:
horrified; horror-stricken; horror-struck
Classified under:
Similar:
afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb horrify
Context examples:
Horrified at the suddenness and severity of the attack, we carried him into the kitchen, where he lay back in a large chair, and breathed heavily for some minutes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was horrified by my first glimpse of Holmes next morning, for he sat by the fire holding his tiny hypodermic syringe.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An instant later it was hurriedly replaced, and I caught a glimpse of a dark, beautiful, horrified face glaring at the narrow opening of the box-room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At last, after an agony of supplication and protestation, I got Dora to look at me, with a horrified expression of face, which I gradually soothed until it was only loving, and her soft, pretty cheek was lying against mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If Amy had been here, she'd have turned her back on him forever because, sad to relate, he had a great appetite, and shoveled in his dinner in a manner which would have horrified 'her ladyship'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When it struck him what he said, he was horrified at his thoughtlessness and tried to comfort her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She fell back against the wall with shriek after shriek of laughter, while I, horrified at this sudden hysterical attack, rushed to the bell to summon help.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then, horrified by what he had done, he fled out of the hut, dropping the notebook which he had brought with him in order to question Peter Carey about these different securities.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She did take off the papers, but no cloud of ringlets appeared, for the hair came with the papers, and the horrified hairdresser laid a row of little scorched bundles on the bureau before her victim.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When Dr. Seward saw me he jumped up with a horrified exclamation, and hurriedly taking a case-bottle from a cupboard, gave me some brandy, which in a few minutes somewhat restored me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
