horrifying

Horrify \Hor"ri*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Horrified}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Horrifying}.] [L. horrificare. See {Horrific}.]
To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror;
as, the sight horrified the beholders. --E. Irving.
[1913 Webster]

horrifying
adj : provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a
frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even
horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words
horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious},
{frightful}, {horrible}, {ugly}]

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "horrifying":
appalling, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful,
baneful, beastly, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fell,
formidable, ghastly, ghoulish, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous,
horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, macabre, morbid,
redoubtable, rotten, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific,
terrifying, tragic, tremendous, unspeakable