horror-struck
- s stricken with horror
- He is not speechifying; he is horror-struck by the reality of ethnic madness.
- The New Jersey assembly did so last spring, for example, after being horror-struck by the case of a six-year-old girl whom police found badly beaten and wearing a dog collar around .
- Many people at home abroad were horror-struck when a so-called Christian nation used the atomic bomb against its enemies.