horrorstruck
See also: horror-struck
English
Adjective
horrorstruck (comparative more horrorstruck, superlative most horrorstruck)
- Alternative form of horror-struck.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- I am horrorstruck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
- 1926, Felix Salten, Bambi, a Life in the Woods, page 276:
- The others were horrorstruck and fled in all directions.