different between horrify vs stupefy
horrify
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)
- 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
Translations
References
horrify From the web:
- what horrifying vision appears to macbeth
- what visions does macbeth see
- what ghost does macbeth see
- what are the 3 visions seen by macbeth
- what vision do the witches show macbeth
stupefy
English
Etymology
From Middle French stupéfier, from Latin stupefaci? (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupe? (“I am stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faci? (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st(j)up??fa?/, /?st?up??fa?/
Verb
stupefy (third-person singular simple present stupefies, present participle stupefying, simple past and past participle stupefied)
- (transitive) To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to dazzle or stun.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
stupefy From the web:
- stupefy meaning
- stupefy what does that mean
- what does stupefy do
- what does stupefy do in harry potter
- what does stupefy mean in latin
- what is stupefying crime
- what does stupefy
- what is stupefying drug
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- horrify vs stupefy
- stupefy vs stupefaction
- stupefyingly vs taxonomy
- heteroclite vs heteroclitical
- horrifying vs horrible
- regalia vs regalian
- regalia vs taxonomy
- regalias vs regalian
- realia vs regalia
- panoply vs regalia
- regalia vs mound
- terms vs regalian
- royal vs regalia
- right vs regalia
- furrydom vs taxonomy
- deconversion vs taxonomy
- reconversion vs deconversion
- deconversions vs reconversions
- loss vs deconversion
- faith vs deconversion