horror-struck

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horror-struck (comparative more horror-struck, superlative most horror-struck)

  1. (idiomatic) Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
    Synonym: horror-stricken
    • 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.
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