Horrify \Hor"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Horrified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Horrifying}.] [L. horrificare. See {Horrific}.] To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. --E. Irving.
Shiite leaders threatened to attack French warships if they approach the Lebanese coast, and the radical Hezbollah faction added that its response would "horrify everybody."
Now, he has thrown his support behind an economic reform plan full of ideas that warm the hearts of capitalists and horrify die-hard Communists: private land, home ownership, merit pay and profits.
"There's no pride of authorship here," says Michael Szeto, a vice president of IBM U.S., voicing a sentiment that would horrify many old-timers.
The new repressive regulations may horrify the black opposition, but they will go down well here, where old-fashioned apartheid is still the order of the day.
She orders it, she says, "if for no other reason than to horrify the waiter." It is sometimes hard to distinguish Miss Lewis from her woolly alter ego.
The real New York is a home to 7.5 million, not a cartoon designed to amuse, titillate or horrify.