terrorize

English

Alternative forms

• terrorise (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From terror +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəɹaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

terrorize (third-person singular simple present terrorizes, present participle terrorizing, simple past and past participle terrorized) (transitive, American spelling, Oxford British English)

1. To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.
2. To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.

Synonyms

• (fill with terror): petrify, terrify
• (coerce by threats or violence): bully, hector

Derived terms

• counter-terrorize

 

Related terms

• terrorism
• terrorist

Translations

fill with terror

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: тэрарызава́ць impf or pf (teraryzavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: тероризирам (bg) (teroriziram)
• Catalan: terroritzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• French: terroriser (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: terrorisieren (de)
• Greek: τρομοκρατώ (el) (tromokrató)
• Hungarian: terrorizál (hu), megfélemlít (hu)
• Italian: terrorizzare (it)
• Latin: terreō
• Latvian: terorizēt
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: terroryzować (pl) impf, sterroryzować (pl) pf
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: терроризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (terrorizírovatʹ)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: terrorizar
• Swedish: terrorisera (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: тероризува́ти impf or pf (teroryzuváty), стероризува́ти pf (steroryzuváty)

Further reading

• “terrorize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries