English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "verskriklik" is: op 'n wyse wat afgryse, skok of walging veroorsaak of waarskynlik sal veroorsaak; uiters onaangenaam of betreurenswaardig. Dit kan ook in 'n baie groot of uiterste mate beteken, soos "hy was verskriklik laat vir die vergadering."

Synonyms

  1. dreadfully
  2. awfully

Sentence Examples

  1. Besides, although I was evidently approaching the surface below me, it was with a speed by no means commensurate with the velocity I had at first so horribly conceived.
  2. She was horribly worried over what was happening to me and had a gnawing feeling she had to do something to help.
  3. There on the bed, seemingly in a swoon, lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever.
  4. Since then, small, dark spaces affected me horribly, and I avoided them.
  5. Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty, plunged to the neck in the peculiar howdahs provided for them, were horribly jostled by the swift trotting of the elephant, spurred on as he was by the skilful Parsee but they endured the discomfort with true British phlegm, talking little, and scarcely able to catch a glimpse of each other.
  6. I had a passing thought that the shirt was going to be horribly wrinkled and possibly ruined.
  7. Yet another job interview went horribly as his career circled the drain.
  8. As I rearrange my belongings and attempt to tame my now horribly wrinkled shirt, Henry jumps in the front and off we go.
  9. Students milled about, tearing down their projects, oblivious that something horribly, terribly wrong had happened.
  10. The searchlight followed her, and a shudder ran through all who saw her, for lashed to the helm was a corpse, with drooping head, which swung horribly to and fro at each motion of the ship.