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Disgust vs Terrify - What's the difference?

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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)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • 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) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    terrify

    English

    Alternative forms

    * terrifie (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
  • To menace or intimidate.
  • (obsolete) To make terrible.
  • Synonyms

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