Horrify vs Disgust - What's the difference?
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To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
To cause an intense dislike for something.
* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
Horrify is a related term of disgust.
As verbs the difference between horrify and disgust
is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something.As a noun disgust is
an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.horrify
English
Verb
- The haunted house was horrifying , from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.
Synonyms
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disgust
English
Verb
(en verb)- It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
- It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.
Noun
(wikipedia disgust) (-)- With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.