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horrified

adjective as in frightened

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To make money on Avant!’s stock, however, he’d probably have to stomach short-term losses, as investors puked up shares in horrified response to negative publicity.

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He horrified the neo-isolationist “restrainers” who hoped that his second term would see the U.S. turning away from foreign quarrels to focus on “America first.”

Herdsmen torched churches, and killed farmers, who were usually, but not exclusively Christians, producing images that horrified evangelical leaders in America, moved by a modern-day story of Christian persecution.

The family were horrified that their vulnerable son had been, in their view, groomed by a virtual character – and his life put at risk by something that wasn't real.

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She stuck around to see if the store had more in its backroom and was horrified to watch a fight break out between customers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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