verb
definition
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
example
The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
adjective
definition
Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.
Examples of horrifying in a Sentence
I just had the most horrifying day of my life!
This might be a common situation for him, but it was horrifying for her.
My name is Elizabeth Anne Morganthaw Gustefson, called Betsy and I'm writing these horrifying remembrances at the request of my husband Ben.
Community leaders were baffled by the sudden arrival and spread of this horrifying disease.
The whole scene was horrifying.
Equally horrifying is the fact that many women do not have access to the best possible medical treatment.
This album is dark musically already, but when mixed with the tone in the air of Prague it becomes somewhat horrifying " .
We then remembered that children's fairy tales at that time were very menacing - Grimm's fairly tales were horrifying and extremely moralistic.
From time to time horrifying stories reach the press of migrants suffocated in air-tight container trucks.
Or create horrifying mini collages with Halloween themes.
Or perhaps you want to look more gothic and demon-like with their line of horrifying contact lenses.
It seems to be a part of the rebellious need to establish their own identity for the new generation, just as the previous one seems to forget that their "proper" way of dancing was most likely horrifying to their parents.
The horrifying thing about this accident is that you often don't feel it because your top is technically still secured.
The following supplies and costume props will come in handy while you are creating your own horrifying look.
The Cullen family is not the only one that is hiding a secret; Jake joins what Bella thinks is a cult and when an unexpected visitor brings her some horrifying news, Bella must choose between the two families.
The Dementors, flawlessly designed and perfectly animated, are the most beautifully horrifying visions on the screen and will put a chill in the spine of anyone who sees them.
The in-between place where Jake's drugs put her were filled with horrifying visions of Cody and other strangers dying while Dr. Czerno screamed at her to return to him in his inhuman computer voice.
Instead of Gabriel's warm energy, this one was Darkyn's cool energy, the soul-deep connection to a demon horrifying her.
In this horrifying denouement resulting from the clash of multiple perspectives, the audience confronts the dead, wounded, and defiant.
Your parents, horrifying as it may sound, can actually provide you with a lot of good information, and you should talk to them about sex if you feel comfortable doing so.
But these can lead to some horrifying embarrassing bra stories.
The big bad wolf threatening the three little pigs and the hairy spider frightening little Miss Muffet are just two examples of brutal and horrifying elements that exist in many of our beloved children's stories.
Yet when Islamic fanatics commit acts of horrifying atrocity, and do so as Moslems, the peaceable Islamic majority has nothing to say.
As an example of a really scary ghost story, the tale of the Bell Witch stands out among true ghost stories as one of the most horrifying tales of all time.