What's the difference between horrification and torrification?

Horrification


Definition:

  • (n.) That which causes horror.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
  • (2) She reported violence and aggression from patients and their relatives and said she felt unsupported by management after “horrific incidents”.
  • (3) We have an operation an hour away on the border and the barrel bombs cause horrific injuries.” Islamic Relief and MSF said the health system in Syria is decimated and the need for reconstructive surgery and burns treatment is enormous.
  • (4) The notion that two months or three months after something as horrific as what happened in Newtown happens and we've moved on to other things, that's not who we are."
  • (5) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
  • (6) She continued: "The scale of his suffering was truly horrific.
  • (7) The response to this horrific incident seems to be a growing trend where travellers understand the geography, distances and circumstances, and weigh up risks in a real way."
  • (8) The poor are often the people deeply rooted in place, whether they’re fisherfolk in the Mekong Delta (due to go underwater from rising seas) or farmers in desertifying Africa or India, where a horrific heatwave and drought killed at least 300 last month and left 330 million without enough water.
  • (9) Kevin Williamson in National Review wrote that there is “no non-horrific interpretation” of the episode with the stones.
  • (10) What happened to her was beyond horrific, she suffered that night, she suffered in prison and she is still suffering.” Ibrahim’s lawyer, Nigel Richardson, is preparing to submit her case to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which pursues miscarriages of justice.
  • (11) 'And, yes, it has horrifically backfired, but I think this could have backfired for any other family.'
  • (12) There was the man who did all those horrific things outside the home as part of his job.
  • (13) A majority believes that spending cuts and tax rises are necessary responses to a horrific budget deficit and many hold Labour rather than the coalition responsible for the Britain's ills.
  • (14) In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it's easy to talk about guns.
  • (15) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
  • (16) Perpetrators must never be allowed to think that their horrific acts will go overlooked or go unpunished ... Victims and survivors … deserve to be heard now, just as they should have been years ago, and they deserve justice, just as they did then,” she said.
  • (17) The horrific killing of Matthew Shepard in 1998 is widely seen as one of the worst anti-gay hate crimes in American history.
  • (18) He’s been the outstanding player.” Quick to tweet about Kane being on fire – complete with flame emojis – when the Tottenham Hotspur striker scored against Lithuania, Austin was taken to task on Twitter by Joey Barton, his QPR team-mate, the following morning for his “horrific” dress sense after he appeared on Soccer AM .
  • (19) Ebola is a horrific disease that kills more than half of people infected by it, though with specialist western treatment that death rate would likely fall a little.
  • (20) Tuesday’s horrific chemical attack was a war crime which requires urgent independent UN investigation and those responsible must be held to account.” Corbyn said there was a need to “urgently reconvene the Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict”.

Torrification


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