Terrify

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  • transitive verb. To fill with terror; make deeply afraid: synonym: frighten.
  • transitive verb. To drive or force by arousing fear.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make afraid; strike with fear; affect or fill with terror; frighten; alarm.
  • To make terrible.
  • Synonyms To scare, horrify, appal, daunt. See afraid.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To make terrible.
  • transitive verb. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
  • verb. To menace or intimidate.
  • verb. To make terrible.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. fill with terror; frighten greatly
    • Word Usage
    "It used the term "climate porn" to describe what it categorized as alarmist language on climate issues meant to "thrill" and "terrify" - but which failed to encourage meaningful action."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    clarify  verify  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    appal  eerie  frighten  horrid  horrify  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    affright  alarm  appall  awe  freeze  
    variant
    terrified  
    verb-form
    terrified  terrifies  terrifying  
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