ADJ
- abject, absolute, utter
- The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror
- mock
- She raised her hands in mock horror when she saw my new haircut
VERB + HORROR
- feel, have
- She felt horror and pity at seeing Marcus so ill. She had a horror of pubs
- fill sb with
- The possibility of meeting him again filled me with horror
- overcome
- recoil in
- Anna recoiled in horror as the snake approached
HORROR + NOUN
- film, story
- They were trying to scare each other with horror stories about going to the dentist
PREP
- in ~
- They watched in horror as the aircraft crashed to the ground
- to your ~
- To his horror, he saw a dead body lying beside the road
- with ~
- He realized with absolute horror that he no longer had the money
- ~ of
- I'm trying to overcome my horror of insects
PHRASES
- a look of horror, shock horror
- newspapers full of shock horror headlines
ADJ
- full
- He never experienced the full horrors of trench warfare
- ultimate
- I used to regard public speaking as the ultimate horror
VERB + HORROR
- commit, inflict, perpetrate
- He had witnessed horrors committed by the enemy
- experience, suffer
- witness