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Horrify vs Horrified - What's the difference?

horrify | horrified |

As verbs the difference between horrify and horrified

is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while horrified is (horrify).

As an adjective horrified is

struck with horror.

horrify

English

Verb

  • To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
    • The haunted house was horrifying , from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * horrible * horrid * horrific * horrification * horror * horrendous

    References

    horrified

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Struck with horror.
  • * 2003 , John E. Ferling, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic , page 358
    • No one was more horrified than Chauncey Goodrich, scion of an old, elite family in Hartford

    Verb

    (head)
  • (horrify)