different between hornify vs horrify

English

Etymology

horny +? -fy

Verb

hornify (third-person singular simple present hornifies, present participle hornifying, simple past and past participle hornified)

1. (transitive) To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
   • 1930, The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17

     We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum […]

2. (transitive, colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.

   • My Wife has hornified me.

English

Etymology

horror +? -ify, or borrowed from Latin horrificare (cf. French horrifier). 1791, in form horrifying.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h???fa?/
• (US) enPR: hôr??-f?, IPA^(key): /?h???fa?/

Verb

horrify (third-person singular simple present horrifies, present participle horrifying, simple past and past participle horrified)

1. 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 Thesaurus:frighten

Derived terms

• horrification

Related terms

• horrible
• horrid
• horrific
• horror
• horrendous

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