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• v  fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
• s  provoking horror
  an alarming, even horrifying, picture

• The passengers aboard an Albany-bound plane that took off immediately after the 707 saw the horrifying scene.
• Where he serves as the beast to Diane's beauty, horrifying her, titillating her, then enlisting her sympathetic curiosity and, finally, her love.
• The surreal carnival of violent depravity is made all the more horrifying when seen from the point of view of a boy who perceives all this as unsurprising and normal: He knows no .

• dismay
• alarm
• appal
• appall
• horrify
• atrocious
• frightful
• horrible
• ugly

News & Articles

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• Target 11 talks to mother, children who survive 6-story bridge fall
  It was a horrifying scene -- a car with a mother and two children plunged off a bridge, and fell more than 60 feet into a ravine. Emergency responders rush to the scene expecting to find no survivors. But miraculously, everyone was alive. "We were coming across the bridge going to Cabela's and had the kids in the back seat watching a movie and just all of the sudden someone is on top of me. It ...
  June 13, 2013 - WPXI Pittsburgh
• Author of high-profile Chinese labor camp letter speaks out
  Julie Keith of Portland found a letter -- detailing horrifying conditions at a Chinese labor camp -- tucked inside some Halloween decorations, as she told KATU last December. Now, the author of that letter has given an interview to The New York Times.
  June 13, 2013 - KOMO Seattle
• Woman bites into burger with razor blade in it, local news reacts hilariously [VIDEO]
  There are no shortage of people finding disgusting items in fast food — from fingers to chicken brains, etc. — and it is upsetting and horrifying and all that stuff.
  June 12, 2013 - The Daily Caller via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• David Miliband in Independent
  It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. The debt of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that he was treated so... Gordon Brown http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE-PFSKfa_9Cue9zTZuv_tG4sb9AQ AFP http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g9NiRrGP4uPO13lvk4BPzQi_QQmw&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFdP_0V4vcVonljIENCceD7iHajog Sep 11, 2009 48179 65256 horrifying Speaking to MPs in the Commons, Mr Miliband said Mr Litvinenko, a British citizen, had suffered a horrifying and lingering death in front of his family" after being poisoned with the radioactive polonium-210.