terrify
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- terrifie (obsolete)
Etymology edit
From Middle French terrifier, from Latin terrificare.
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Verb edit
terrify (third-person singular simple present terrifies, present participle terrifying, simple past and past participle terrified)
- To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
- To menace or intimidate.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- Your men are valiant but their number few,
And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]
- (obsolete) To make terrible.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to frighten greatly; to fill with terror
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to menace or intimidate
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