horror-struck
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See also: horrorstruck
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]horror-struck (comparative more horror-struck, superlative most horror-struck)
- Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
- 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 99:
- At sight of these strange, swift, and terrible creatures, the crowd along by the water's edge seemed to me to be for a moment horror-struck.