Other forms: horrified, horrifying, horrifies
To horrify is to shock somebody deeply. Horrified by the news, it horrifies me, a horrifying sight.
The participle is the commonest form in both directions: horrified is how the person feels and horrifying is what caused it. It is stronger than shock and belongs to what offends the conscience.
1verbhorrifyTo shock somebody deeply.
“The photos of the injured animals horrified everyone who saw them.”
horrify is a shocking.
Latin horrificare means to make bristle, from horrere, to shudder, plus facere, to make.
Latin
horrificare
English, today
horrify
From horror + ify, or Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA