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Horrify vs Unnerve - What's the difference?

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Horrify is a related term of unnerve.


As verbs the difference between horrify and unnerve

is that horrify is to cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror while unnerve is to deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.

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

    unnerve

    English

    Verb

    (unnerv)
  • To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble.
    • to unnerve the arm
  • To upset.
    • I was greatly unnerved by this.

    Derived terms

    * unnervingly