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horrified

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verb

past tense of horrify

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrified
Adjective
  • The frightened Maltese was swimming in circles, but Desalvo and his colleagues were able to pull her to safety.
    Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
  • The first few attempts to free the dog failed, then the rescuers cleverly used a tarp to hoist the frightened animal to safety.
    Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Moreover, Rocket has a relatively new CEO who wants to dominate the mortgage industry and is not afraid of technology, previously working at Intuit, PayPal, Groupon and Microsoft.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 May 2025
  • The youngest cast member at the time, Williams set the tone for the raw emotion the show was not afraid to show over the years.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 24 May 2025
Verb
  • The movie sees the revival of arch-villain Feathers McGraw, who terrified kids in 1993’s The Wrong Trousers.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024
  • My Hugo would chase it and bark at it, or he'd be terrified.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Well, Netflix has found another one of these aspirational gurus who are scared to die and are willing to go to extreme lengths to preserve their physique — at any cost.
    Rebecca Aizin, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • Keep in mind that behind all that jealousy is usually someone who’s just scared of losing you.
    Anna Pulley, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • While guest hosting Today with Jenna & Friends on Tuesday, May 20, Guthrie, 53, shared that her son Charley, 8, asked her not to come to his school's party, leaving her good friend Jenna Bush Hager, 43, shocked.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 20 May 2025
  • So when Green’s ex reached out, unprompted, Green was shocked.
    Megan Farokhmanesh, Wired News, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • But even legal scholars with an expansive view of executive authority have grown alarmed.
    Eric Cortellessa, Time, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Garcia, like many of us, is alarmed that these deportations aren’t just to a foreign country, but into a prison where a government official once said the only way out was in a coffin.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Horrified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrified. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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