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.