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PRONUNCIATION OF HORROR-STRICKEN

horror-stricken  [ˈhɒrəˌstrɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORROR-STRICKEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Horror-Stricken is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HORROR-STRICKEN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
Armorican
ɑːˈmɒrɪkən
Asian-American
ˈeɪʒənəˈmerɪkən
awe-stricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
awestricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
bricken
ˈbrɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Latino-American
læˈtiːnəʊəˌmerɪkən
love-stricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
lovestricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
Meso-American
ˌmiːzəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mesoamerican
ˌmɛsəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
moonstricken
ˈmuːnˌstrɪkən
plague-stricken
ˈpleɪɡˌstrɪkən
planet-stricken
ˈplænɪtˌstrɪkən
stricken
ˈstrɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
thunderstricken
ˈθʌndəˌstrɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORROR-STRICKEN

horridness
horrific
horrifically
horrification
horrified
horrifies
horrify
horrifying
horrifyingly
horripilant
horripilate
horripilation
horrisonant
horrisonous
horror
horror film
horror story
horror writer
horror-struck
horrors

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORROR-STRICKEN

chicken
conscience-stricken
coronation chicken
Digby chicken
drucken
free-range chicken
grief-stricken
like a headless chicken
mobile phone chicken
Mother Carey´s chicken
no chicken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
prairie chicken
quicken
requicken
she is no spring chicken
sicken
spring chicken
terror-stricken
thicken

Synonyms and antonyms of horror-stricken in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HORROR-STRICKEN»

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

Translation of «horror-stricken» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HORROR-STRICKEN

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

Translator English - Chinese

惊恐万状
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

horror afectada
570 millions of speakers

English

horror-stricken
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आतंक से त्रस्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرعب المنكوبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ужас
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

- horror ferido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আতঙ্কগ্রস্ত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

frappé d´horreur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seram
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Entsetzen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ホラー被災
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

공포 에 질린
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Horor-stricken
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh dị bị ảnh hưởng mạnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

திகில் வாடுகின்றவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भयपट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dehşete kapılmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

atterrito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

horror ogarniętych
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

жах
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

- groază lovite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

horror - πληγείσες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

horror - geteisterde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skräckslagna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

horror -rammet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of horror-stricken

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORROR-STRICKEN»

The term «horror-stricken» is normally little used and occupies the 132.781 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HORROR-STRICKEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «horror-stricken» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «horror-stricken» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about horror-stricken

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORROR-STRICKEN»

Discover the use of horror-stricken in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to horror-stricken and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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India, the Horror-Stricken Empire
Subtitle: Containing a Full Account of the Famine, Plague, and Earthquake of 1896-7; Including a Complete Narrative of the Relief Work Through the Home and Foreign Commission General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: ...
George Lambert, 2009
2
India, the Horror-Stricken Empire: Containing a Full Account ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Lambert George 1853-1928, 2013
3
Harrap's essential English Dictionary
5 Stories of mystery or horror are about such things as monsters, demons, witches and ghosts, and are intended to frighten you: horror movies. horror- Stricken /'horastnkan/ or horror-struck /'hDrastrAk/ adjective You are horror- stricken or ...
‎1996
4
India, the Horror-stricken Empire : Containing a Full ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
George Lambert, Abram B. Kolb, 2010
5
Can I Live and Work in México?: A Guide to Living and ...
The local Mexicans look with horror-stricken faces and yet settle quickly into a kind of facial expression, "Oh that's America for you." The mother and father somehow find something to do with the children. I think they get some Actifed for  ...
Doug Bower, 2007
6
Rhythmic Grammar: The Influence of Rhythm on Grammatical ...
... progresses only slowly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is mainly accounted for by the massive increase of compounded participles of the type awe -stricken, conscience-stricken, horror- stricken, panic-stricken, poverty-stricken, ...
Julia Schlüter, 2005
7
The Anna Katharine Green Mystery Megapack: 35 Classic ...
“When Emma came to the room she discovered me kneeling, rigid and horror- stricken, above my father's outstretched form . She says that I met her eyes with mine, but that there was no look of life within them . Indeed, I was hardly alive, and ...
Anna Katharine Green, 2013
8
Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
... horrid: suited to excite horror horrific: causing horror horrified: stricken with horror horrifying: frightening horror-stricken: struck with an excessive degree of fear with a shuddering hurtful: causing loss or injury hurting: causing pain or suffering ...
Barbara Kipfer, 2003
9
Life as it Is, Or, Matters and Things in General: Containing ...
There were but four or five men in the house, one of whom was so horror-stricken that he fell down behind a loom, where he lay shivering with a fright like a man laboring under a severe attack of the ague, until after the battle was over. But the  ...
John Will M. Breazeale, 2009
10
The Atheneum
The Recorder, horror-stricken at the notion of being so close to a murderer at large, gabbled out an inarticulate ejaculation, something of an equivocal nature betwixt an oath and a prayer, and stretched out his hand towards the silver hand- bell ...
‎1831

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORROR-STRICKEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term horror-stricken is used in the context of the following news items.
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WATCH: Terrified family hid just yards from killer in Tunisian massacre
A horror-stricken mum hid in terror with her young family just feet from the gunman who slaughtered 30 Brits in the Tunisian massacre. Andrea ... «Sunderland Echo, Jun 15»
2
There's Only Us; And We Will Rise and Fall Together
I watched horror-stricken as the news broke of the shooting. Mass shootings are unthinkable, but for it to happen in a house of worship is ... «Up & Coming Weekly, Jun 15»
3
'Insidious 3' Trailer & Plot Review: Lin Shaye Stands Out Despite …
According to reports, the movie plays out with the same story line from the previous films, which is Elise helping out the horror-stricken family, ... «Realty Today, Jun 15»
4
Alton Towers Smiler rollercoaster crash: 'Passengers unconscious …
Horror-stricken revellers told of rollercoaster passengers stranded unconscious, screaming and blood everywhere when their day out at a top ... «Birmingham Mail, Jun 15»
5
LUSITANIA: Poignant story of two Valley couples on the fateful ship …
... fiendish crime make it impossible for that nation to be mentioned in the same breath as civilisation – stands horror-stricken and appalled.”. «Rossendale Free Press, May 15»
6
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails … what is cat food made of?
Two girls with horror-stricken faces pressed to the back window of the station wagon wailed most of the way home. How would Nooly survive if ... «Hamilton Spectator, May 15»
7
Unfriended: Paranormal tale for Web addicts connects the …
What the poet and cheery technophobe Ted Hughes knew about the blower, the horror-stricken, Skype-slashed teens of Unfriended know ... «The Globe and Mail, Apr 15»
8
The Brown Squirts Will Kill You Faster Than the Drought
As we walked down the narrow hallway to the exit door, the secretary's face seemed horror-stricken. Had she ever seen this side of Mr. «Executive Intelligence Review, Apr 15»
9
What Lincoln Left Behind
... said one observer, while in New York, a weeping white man made his way to Wall Street to join “the crowd with sad and horror-stricken faces. «New York Times, Apr 15»
10
A bus ticket to Lebanon's past
The faces of the lost, of the unfound, of the horror-stricken, of the traumatized, and of the ambivalent. I look out the window and there is the ... «Your Middle East, Apr 15»

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