HORROR-STRUCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horror-struck mean? 

• HORROR-STRUCK (adjective)
  The adjective HORROR-STRUCK has 1 sense:

1. stricken with horror

  Familiarity information: HORROR-STRUCK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORROR-STRUCK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stricken with horror

Synonyms:

horrified; horror-stricken; horror-struck

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

Emma even jumped with surprize;—and, horror-struck, exclaimed, Jane Fairfax! Good God!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

William and Fanny were horror-struck at the idea.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was well on in the morning; the servants were up; all my drugs were in the cabinet—a long journey down two pairs of stairs, through the back passage, across the open court and through the anatomical theatre, from where I was then standing horror-struck.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)