horrify

Universal Words verb (horrifies, horrifying, horrified, horrified) to make sb feel extremely shocked, disgusted or frightened SYNAPPAL: [VN] The whole country was horrified by the killings. * [VNtoinf] It horrified her to think that he had killed someone. [also VNthat] horrified adjective: He was horrified when he discovered the conditions in which they lived. * She gazed at him in horrified disbelief.