Disgust vs Terrify - What's the difference?
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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.
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
To menace or intimidate.
(obsolete) To make terrible.
Disgust is a related term of terrify.
As verbs the difference between disgust and terrify
is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while terrify is to frighten greatly; to fill with terror.As a noun disgust
is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.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.