To fill with horror; to cause to feel intense fear or revulsion.
From 'be-' prefix plus 'horror.' The 'be-' prefix intensifies or transitivizes the noun, creating a verb meaning to cause the state of horror, though this word barely appears in texts.
Medieval and Renaissance writers loved inventing 'be-' verbs with emotion words—'bejoy,' 'besorry,' 'bedread'—but most never caught on, leaving us a graveyard of expressive possibilities.
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