Definition of HORRIFY

horrify

Verb

Verb Forms: horrified, horrifying, horrifies

  • To cause someone to feel horror or shock.
  • fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
  • To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

Examples

  • His strategy was to HORRIFY opponents by constantly playing obscure, high-scoring words.
  • The haunted house horrified me, as I passed from one room to the next feeling more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

Origin / Etymology

From horror + -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.

Scrabble Score: 16

horrify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
horrify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
horrify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

horrify: valid Words With Friends Word