terrify
/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ verb A2- To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
- To menace or intimidate.
He/she/it terrifies · Past terrified · Past participle terrified · -ing form terrifying
Verb forms
- Base form
- terrify
- He/she/it
- terrifies
- Past
- terrified
- Past participle
- terrified
- -ing form
- terrifying
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The dim light, the profound silence, and the gloomy thoughts inspired by the hour, and still more by her own conscience, all combined to produce a sensation of fear; the poisoner was terrified at the contemplation of her own work.
Then she swayed, lost her balance, stumbled, staggered, and fell, sliding down over the sun-baked roof and crashing off it through the tangle of Virginia creeper beneath--all before the dismayed circle below could give a simultaneous, terrified shriek.
THE PIGEONS, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them.
Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave.
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