horror-struck

adjective

hor·ror-struck ˈhȯr-ər-ˌstrək

ˈhär-

Synonyms of horror-struck next

: struck with horror

stood horror-struck as they watched … their own city destroyed—

Nashville Tennessean

Examples of horror-struck in a Sentence

horror-struck, the villagers watched helplessly as the tsunami hit the shore

Recent Examples on the Web Other people were horror-struck by the verdicts in each of these cases, seeing them as a catastrophic failure of the American system of justice. —

Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 31 May 2024

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