Horrify vs Appall - What's the difference?
horrify | appall |
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
* Edward Hyde Claredon
(obsolete) To make pale; to blanch.
* Wyatt
(obsolete) To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce.
* Holland
(obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
(obsolete) To lose flavour or become stale.
As verbs the difference between horrify and appall
is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while appall is to depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.horrify
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Verb
- The haunted house was horrifying , from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
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appall
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Alternative forms
* appal (occasionally in Commonwealth English)Verb
(en verb)- The sight appalled the stoutest heart.
- The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum.
- The answer that ye made to me, my dear, / Hath so appalled my countenance.
- Wine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold.
- (Gower)