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horrify

/ˈhɔrəfaɪ/, /ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪ/, /ˈhɒrɪfaɪ/ werkwoord

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

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Horrified, I realized that I could not see anything, not even my notes in front of me!
Ek was paniekbevange toe ek besef dat ek niks kon sien nie, nie eens my aantekeninge voor my nie!

Many people who are horrified by the bad state of morals in the world today may think back longingly to the community spirit of their parents’ or grandparents’ day.
Baie mense wat met afgryse vervul word deur die slegte toestand van sedes in vandag se wêreld dink moontlik met verlange terug aan die gemeenskapsgevoel wat in hulle ouers of grootouers se dag geheers het.

I was horrified that my mom would think such a thing!
Ek was geskok dat my ma so iets sou dink!

(Ecclesiastes 3:4; 7:1-3) An abuse victim, though, has been denied her grief, forced to deny her horrifying experience, made to bottle up her pain.
Maar ’n slagoffer van molestering word die geleentheid om te treur ontneem, gedwing om haar skrikwekkende ondervinding te ontken en om haar pyn op te krop.

After commenting that “most people are horrified by the results of our sexually permissive era,” it continues: “Yet people continue to hold sacred the importance of indulging sexual appetites to the fullest. . . .
Nadat dit noem dat “die gevolge van ons seksueel permissiewe era die meeste mense met afgryse vervul”, sê dit: “Tog gaan mense voort om die volle bevrediging van hulle seksuele drange as iets van die allergrootste belang te beskou. . . .

The war was horrifying and cruel.
Die oorlog was skrikwekkend en wreed.

Nipples sliced, knife wounds, and, for the first time, horrifying postmortem mutilation of the vagina.
Tepels afgesny, messteke en, vir die eerste keer, gruwelike nadoodse skending van die vagina.

Admittedly, the thought of your mother discovering wet sheets may horrify you.
Die gedagte dat jou ma op die nat lakens sal afkom, kan jou weliswaar ontstel.

Horrified, panic- stricken, I fled from that house.
Geskok en paniekerig het ek uit die huis gevlug.

My parents were horrified when I quit the church, and the priest was quick to spread the news from the pulpit.
My ouers was baie ontsteld toe ek uit die kerk bedank, en die priester het die nuus dadelik van die preekstoel af versprei.

“Parents would be absolutely horrified and embarrassed if they knew what their children were posting and discussing”
“Ouers sal heeltemal geskok en verleë wees as hulle weet watter inligting hulle kinders op die Internet sit en wat hulle daar bespreek”

Especially horrifying have been the recent revelations of uncontrolled air pollution in Eastern European lands during decades of Communist rule.
Die onlangse berigte van onbeheerde lugbesoedeling in Oos-Europese lande gedurende dekades van Kommunistiese bewind was veral skokkend.

In the United States, each year, from 200 to 300 families will experience the horrifying nightmare of having a child kidnapped and then perhaps never seeing the child alive again.
In die Verenigde State sal 200 tot 300 gesinne jaarliks die skrikwekkende nagmerrie beleef van ’n kind wat ontvoer word en die kind dan moontlik nooit weer lewendig sien nie.

(Luke 7:45) Would you have been appalled, horrified?
(Lukas 7:45). Sou jy ontsteld, geskok, gewees het?

You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death- harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
Jy sidder as jy kyk, en gewonder wat monsteragtige kannibaal en wrede kon 'n dood- oes ooit gegaan het met so ́ n inbraak, verskriklike implementeer.

One mother, who closely monitors her 16-year-old daughter’s online activities, states: “Parents would be absolutely horrified and embarrassed if they knew what their children were posting and discussing.”
Een moeder, wat haar 16-jarige dogter se bedrywighede op die Internet deeglik monitor, sê: “Ouers sal heeltemal geskok en verleë wees as hulle weet watter inligting hulle kinders op die Internet sit en wat hulle daar bespreek.”

More recently, Britain’s consumers were horrified—and its beef industry was shattered—when cattle became infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease).
In onlangser tye is Brittanje se verbruikers met afgryse vervul—en het sy beesvleisbedryf in duie gestort—toe beeste met sponsagtige bees-ensefalopatie (malbeessiekte) besmet is.

He said: “I was dumbstruck and horrified by what I saw.
Hy het gesê: “Wat ek gesien het, het my stomgeslaan en met afgryse vervul.

She was horrified and barred me from associating with the Witnesses.
Sy was geskok en het my nie meer toegelaat om enigiets met die Getuies te doen te hê nie.

When I first began to associate with Jehovah’s Witnesses, my parents were horrified.
Toe ek eers met Jehovah se Getuies begin assosieer het, was my ouers geskok.

Within hours violence of horrifying proportions engulfed Rwanda.
Binne ure het verskriklike geweld in Rwanda uitgebreek en vinnig versprei.

It can be a horrifying experience.
Dit kan ’n skrikwekkende ondervinding wees.

THE terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001, in New York City and in Washington, D.C., horrified people all over the world.
DIE terreuraanvalle wat op 11 September 2001 in die stad New York en in Washington, DC, plaasgevind het, het mense regoor die wêreld met afgryse vervul.

We regularly hear about horrifying acts of terrorism, campaigns of genocide, mass killings by gunmen with little apparent motive, and domestic violence on a shocking scale.
Ons hoor gereeld van afgryslike terreurdade, volkslagtings, groot groepe mense wat sonder skynbare rede deur ’n persoon met ’n vuurwapen afgemaai word en van gesinsgeweld wat skokkende afmetings aanneem.

To put it more plainly, I was horrified.
Trouens, ek was geskok.