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Meaning of HORRIFYING

Pronunciation:  h'oruf`Iing

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 Definition: [adj]  provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
 
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 Synonyms: alarming, atrocious, frightful, horrible, ugly
 

 

 

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 Related Terms: appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell, formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, macabre, morbid, redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific, terrifying, tragic, tremendous, unspeakable
 

 

 

 

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