horrorize

verb

Etymology

From horror + -ize.

  1. derived from horror
  2. derived from horror
  3. inherited from horer
  4. suffixed as horrorize — “horror + ize

Definitions

  1. To fill with horror.

    • Ely's method was to enlarge himself by praising up his cousin and to pleasure himself by horrorizing the men with true faithful portrayals of pirates caught and hanged, […]
    • Their ruthless divinities portrayed them as an uncivilized people with extremely low morality by letting these small gods terrorize and horrorize the common people with uncommon sense and vicious brutality.

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