horrorizar
Portuguese, verb/o.ʁo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
horrorizar is spelled H-O-R-R-O-R-I-Z-A-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese, the 225,105th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Horrorizar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to horrify” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “causar horror a”.
What does horrorizar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to horrify
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. causar horror a 2. horripilar 3. amedrontar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of horrorizar
- horrorizo first-person present singular
- horrorizei first-person preterite singular
- horrorizado participle past
- horrorizares infinitive second-person singular
- horrorizarmos first-person infinitive plural
- horrorizardes infinitive plural second-person
- horrorizarem infinitive plural third-person
- horrorizando gerund
- horrorizados masculine participle past
- horrorizada feminine participle past
- horrorizadas feminine participle past
- horrorizas indicative present second-person
- horroriza indicative present singular
- horrorizamos first-person indicative plural
- horrorizais indicative plural present
- horrorizam indicative plural present
- horrorizava first-person imperfect indicative
- horrorizavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce horrorizar?
- Brazil /o.ʁo.ɾiˈza(ʁ)/
- Brazil [o.ho.ɾiˈza(h)]
- /o.ʁo.ɾiˈza(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is horrorizar in Portuguese?
horrorizar appears about once in every 66 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).