horrify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

   The haunted house horrified me, as I passed from one room to the next feeling more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

2. 2
   verb

   fill with apprehension or alarm

Etymology

From horror + -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.