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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

More than four decades after it first crept onto movie screens, “Alien” remains one of the scariest films ever made, with scenes that continue to horrify and shock even after repeated viewings.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025

But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

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

Long before the end, the horrors have ceased to horrify.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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