know horrors

Frequency: 6.58.0 per million words

To undergo or live through terrible events.

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  • Having lived through the war, she truly knew the horrors of conflict.
  • Those who survived the famine know the horrors of extreme hunger.
  • He had to know the horrors of imprisonment for his beliefs.
  • Only people who have experienced a natural disaster can truly know its horrors.
  • The documentary revealed the terrible horrors that the refugees knew.
  • Many soldiers knew the horrors of battle firsthand.
  • They would later know the horrors of persecution and displacement.
  • To know such horrors at a young age is deeply scarring.
  • She vowed that no one else should know the horrors she had endured.
  • The ancient texts describe creatures that knew no horrors, only destruction.