Usually means: Overwhelmed by intense fear, shock.
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  1. horror-struck: Merriam-Webster
  2. horror-struck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horror-struck, horror-struck: Collins English Dictionary
  4. horror-struck: Vocabulary.com
  5. Horror-struck, horror-struck: Wordnik
  6. horror-struck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. horror-struck: Wiktionary
  8. horror-struck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. horror-struck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. horror-struck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Horror-struck, horror-struck: Dictionary.com
  12. Horror-struck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. horror-struck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. horror-struck: Rhymezone
  15. Horror-struck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. horror-struck: FreeDictionary.org
  17. horror-struck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. horror-struck: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.

Similar:
horror-stricken, horrified, afraid, aghast, hagridden, appalled, terrorstricken, horrorful, consternated, disturbed, more...

Opposite:
unperturbed, composed, calm, collected, unfazed

Types:
aghast, appalled, horrified, shocked, stunned, more...

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Similar:
horror-stricken, horrified, afraid, aghast, hagridden, appalled, terrorstricken, horrorful, consternated, disturbed, more...

Opposite:
unperturbed, composed, calm, collected, unfazed

Types:
aghast, appalled, horrified, shocked, stunned, more...



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