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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Douglas Coupland

Meaning of "horrifies" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HORRIFIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORRIFIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Horrifies is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb horrifies in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HORRIFIES

PRESENT

Present
I horrify
you horrify
he/she/it horrifies
we horrify
you horrify
they horrify
Present continuous
I am horrifying
you are horrifying
he/she/it is horrifying
we are horrifying
you are horrifying
they are horrifying
Present perfect
I have horrified
you have horrified
he/she/it has horrified
we have horrified
you have horrified
they have horrified
Present perfect continuous
I have been horrifying
you have been horrifying
he/she/it has been horrifying
we have been horrifying
you have been horrifying
they have been horrifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I horrified
you horrified
he/she/it horrified
we horrified
you horrified
they horrified
Past continuous
I was horrifying
you were horrifying
he/she/it was horrifying
we were horrifying
you were horrifying
they were horrifying
Past perfect
I had horrified
you had horrified
he/she/it had horrified
we had horrified
you had horrified
they had horrified
Past perfect continuous
I had been horrifying
you had been horrifying
he/she/it had been horrifying
we had been horrifying
you had been horrifying
they had been horrifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will horrify
you will horrify
he/she/it will horrify
we will horrify
you will horrify
they will horrify
Future continuous
I will be horrifying
you will be horrifying
he/she/it will be horrifying
we will be horrifying
you will be horrifying
they will be horrifying
Future perfect
I will have horrified
you will have horrified
he/she/it will have horrified
we will have horrified
you will have horrified
they will have horrified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been horrifying
you will have been horrifying
he/she/it will have been horrifying
we will have been horrifying
you will have been horrifying
they will have been horrifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would horrifies
you would horrifies
he/she/it would horrifies
we would horrifies
you would horrifies
they would horrifies
Conditional continuous
I would be horrifying
you would be horrifying
he/she/it would be horrifying
we would be horrifying
you would be horrifying
they would be horrifying
Conditional perfect
I would have horrifies
you would have horrifies
he/she/it would have horrifies
we would have horrifies
you would have horrifies
they would have horrifies
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been horrifying
you would have been horrifying
he/she/it would have been horrifying
we would have been horrifying
you would have been horrifying
they would have been horrifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you horrify
we let´s horrify
you horrify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to horrify
Past participle
horrified
Present Participle
horrifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORRIFIES

horrible
horribleness
horribly
horrid
horridly
horridness
horrific
horrifically
horrification
horrified
horrify
horrifying
horrifyingly
horripilant
horripilate
horripilation
horrisonant
horrisonous
horror
horror film

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORRIFIES

amplifies
certifies
clarifies
classifies
demystifies
detoxifies
exemplifies
fortifies
identifies
indemnifies
intensifies
justifies
modifies
notifies
qualifies
satisfies
signifies
simplifies
specifies
testifies
verifies

Synonyms and antonyms of horrifies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HORRIFIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «horrifies» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of horrifies

Translation of «horrifies» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HORRIFIES

Find out the translation of horrifies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of horrifies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «horrifies» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

触目惊心
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horroriza
570 millions of speakers

English

horrifies
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

horrifies
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بالذعر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вызывает ужас
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

horroriza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

horrifies
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

horrifie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengerikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entsetzt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

horrifies
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에 빠뜨리고 소름 끼치게
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Horrifies
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

horrifies
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதிர்ச்சியூட்டுகிறது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयानक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ürperttiği
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

orrore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przeraża
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

викликає жах
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

îngrozește
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

horrifies
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afschuw
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

horrifies
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

horrifies
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of horrifies

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORRIFIES»

The term «horrifies» is normally little used and occupies the 109.701 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HORRIFIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about horrifies

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3 QUOTES WITH «HORRIFIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word horrifies.
1
Derek Blasberg
I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.
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Douglas Coupland
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
3
Cameron Mackintosh
It horrifies me how much it costs to put on shows now, mainly due to EU regulations. The freedom to be entrepreneurial is no longer there. It's a massive business now.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORRIFIES»

Discover the use of horrifies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to horrifies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Contemporary Gothic
Inventive and accessibly written, the book will appeal to students and academics researching Gothic across a wide range of disciplines, as well as general readers with an interest in the darker side of film, TV and fiction.
Catherine Spooner (Ph. D.), 2006
2
The Anatomy of Disgust
William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes; eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying.
William Ian MILLER, William Ian Miller, 2009
3
The Triple Witching Hour: The Third Book of Astrological Essays
It horrifies me to realize that many of you have been a victim of rape. As you will learn when you examine charts, men are not always the aggressors nor are women always the victims. Presuming you are learning to use the tools 1 am giving ...
David R. Roell, 2012
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Ellen Glasgow: The Contemporary Reviews
Gideon is said to have come out of a circus; anyhow, he is an apparition that horrifies them. He horrifies Stephen Culpeper, whose idol, politically, is handsome, upright, high principled, drysouled John Benham; just as his scarlet frocked ...
Dorothy M. Scura, 2009
5
Fascism, Integralism and the Corporative Society – Codex ...
Note well that this is why we are anti-Marxists: we are anti-Marxists because it horrifies us, as it horrifies every Westerner, whether employer or proletarian, this being like some creature of the lower animal life in an ant heap. And it horrifies us  ...
H.R. Morgan, 2014
6
A Dangerous Dance:
She shifted. “I don't know. I know I was angry at Magus, but not enough todo anything.”She heard theuncertainty inher voiceandsaw the disbeliefinhiseyes. “I wasa mess,but I'vechanged. Remembering what Idid...it horrifies me.” “Whatwe did.
Pauline Baird Jones, 2014
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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky ...
A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon facility describes the dark secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats and the ...
Kristen Iversen, 2012
8
Count Bernadotte is slain
horrifies. the. world. On the afternoon of Sept. 17, as it was returning from the Hill of Evil Counsel, the official car of the U.N.'s Palestine mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, was stopped by a jeep roadblock in the Jewish sector of Jerusalem.
9
Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
There is nothing wrong in outlining all these figures about Treasury bills and so on, but what horrifies me - it horrifies me from the point of view that the Committee was unable to see what was wrong in this accounting - is that we are told that the  ...
10
The Philosophy of Horror: Or, Paradoxes of the Heart
Not everything that fascinates horrifies and not everything that horrifies fascinates . However, given the specific context of horror fiction, there is a strong correlation between fascination and horror due to the fact that horrific monsters are ...
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Noel Carroll, Noel Carroll, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORRIFIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term horrifies is used in the context of the following news items.
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Were nasty tweets aimed at VA whistleblowers? - Philly.com
"It horrifies me," she said. "And I am praying to God she's talking about somebody else. This has been stressful enough and to find out this kind ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
2
A Mother's Outrage at Planned Parenthood's Market in Body Parts …
It horrifies me that the now-dominant culture can consider an emergent life, the life of my beautiful son, as a commodity to be harvested, bought ... «Aleteia EN, Jul 15»
3
A YKA Contributor Dissects The 7 Types Of People Who Comment …
This particular feedback frankly horrifies me. I have always been against the idea of private medical colleges, which, in exchange for a fat wad ... «Youth Ki Awaaz, Jul 15»
4
Adam Bittner: When it comes to Confederate flags, NASCAR needs …
They just see a symbol used by a mass murderer in a South Carolina church, as well as countless racists before him, and it horrifies them. «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
5
Time management is only making our busy lives worse
It constantly horrifies me to see the number of blogs and books which focus on the goal of getting to an empty inbox or zero tasks, as if either ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
6
Guest Commentary: Former lifeguard weighs in against beach …
The thought horrifies me. Alcohol was banned from the beach for a reason and that was during regular beach hours. I can only imagine the ... «Chesterton Tribune, Jul 15»
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Bear dead: Front yard shooting horrifies residents in Colorado …
A dead bear was found in the front yard of a home in the Cheyenne Mountain Estates, a Colorado community, and the incident has left ... «Examiner.com, Jul 15»
8
Giant Redheaded Centipede Photo Goes Viral, Horrifies the Internet
You don't have to be a Kardashian to stand out on the Internet — all you need is at least 20 pairs of bright-yellow legs, a gleaming red head ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
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Shark Week 2015 Great White Horrifies Passengers of D.C. Metro
On Sunday, July 5, from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST Shark Week began. National Geographic's Discovery Channel played six days of Sharkfest ... «Guardian Liberty Voice, Jul 15»
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Review: 'Go Set a Watchman,' by Harper Lee
... of empathy and human decency, “Watchman” horrifies with its ugly racism, even as it emotes and moralizes didactically, clunkily and shrilly. «SFGate, Jul 15»

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