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What is the adjective for horrifies?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs horrify and horripilate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

horrid
  1. (archaic) Bristling, rough, rugged.
  2. Causing horror or dread.
  3. Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears.”
      “They make a horrid attempt at articulation, and their jabbering is only equaled by the flocks of parakeets who keep the woods in an uproar from sunrise to sunset.”
      “The horrid sight of more than 500 live horses and mules sprawling or hobbling in a bleeding mass was never forgotten by those who witnessed it.”
horrible
  1. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  2. Tremendously bad.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The carnage that resulted was a truly horrible sight.”
      “She let out a horrible scream when she realized that the car her parents had bought her was the wrong color.”
      “That was a really horrible way to speak to your mother. You should be more respectful!”
horripilating
  1. Causing horripilation.
  2. (figuratively) Horrendous, horrifying, terrifying.
horripilated
  1. Bristling with fear or horror; with fur or hair standing on end.
horrifying
  1. Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “When he went to investigate what was happening, he was met with a truly horrifying scene. Standing in the living room was Ian Brady hitting Edward's head with a hatchet.”
      “He jumped on top of the armored personnel carrier and screeched the most horrifying zombie screech he could muster.”
      “The newcomers were plunged into a maelstrom of horrifying news about the arrival of creatures from Mars.”
horrific
  1. Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The consequences of drugs prescribed by practitioners with bogus qualifications and only the haziest understanding of medicine can be horrific.”
      “A teenage driver was killed when his car collided head-on with a heavy goods vehicle in a horrific accident on a major road near York.”
      “The combination of horrific makeup, abhorrent timing, and trite jokes has literally become painful.”
horridsome
  1. (rare) Characteristically or typically horrid; horrendous
horrendous
  1. Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is Genji's own mental discourse assessing the shock of having encountered the horrendous vision of Rokujo's spirit haunting his wife.”
      “Moishy kicked the door open and was greeted with the horrendous sight of flames bursting into the room.”
      “As he opened a hole in the barricade, he was assaulted by a horrendous smell of decay and corruption.”
horrifical
  1. Of or pertaining to horror.
horrorsome
  1. Characterised or marked by horror.
horrifick
  1. Obsolete form of horrific.
horrified
  1. Struck with horror.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The supervisor, obviously worried about all the complaints, announced to the horrified children that the food might be poisoned.”
      “Despite his initial surly attitude, he'd seemed genuinely horrified at the news of the tragic incident.”
      “His daughters were horrified at his behavior. He insulted the waitress. He drank too much. He glared at his wife and stuck out his tongue to annoy her.”
horribler
horriblest
horrider
horridest
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