horror-struck
adjective
stricken with horror; horrified; aghast.
horror-stricken
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a variation of
horror-struck.
Example Sentences
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“He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
“I was just horror-stricken that this could happen in our state,” Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, a Republican, told Denver’s Fox 31 TV station after a Wednesday visit to the Animas, near Durango.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2015
The woman beside me looks so horror-stricken, I try to sound especially calm when talking to 911.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2012
Clever new playmates can be found in a child's garden of microchips Well before noon on Christmas Day, horror-stricken adults will issue forth from every child-equipped house in the nation.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were all sniffing at him, absolutely horror-stricken; but one of the Owslafa said, ‘You needn’t make such a fuss. He’s lucky to be alive.’
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
