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Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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verb

To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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horrify

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/

To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.

In a Sentence

The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn’t going to survive.

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