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horrify

[hawr-uh-fahy, hor-] / ˈhɔr əˌfaɪ, ˈhɒr- /


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Speaking to BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, Little-Pengelly said the rates of violence against women in Northern Ireland should "horrify all of us".

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Take the following quiz to imagine a future and learn if that future will horrify you.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

That detail didn't horrify some nearly as much as his and Chapel's usage of a serum not yet seen before in "Star Trek."

From Salon • Jul. 27, 2023

This table is sure to horrify any knowledgeable scholar, because it reduces exceedingly complex histories to a few seemingly precise dates.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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