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Terrify   /tˈɛrəfˌaɪ/   Listen
verb
Terrify  v. t.  (past & past part. terrified; pres. part. terrifying)  
1.
To make terrible. (Obs.) "If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself."
2.
To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten. "When ye shall hear of wars... be not terrified."





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"Terrify" Quotes from Famous Books



... sufficient to terrify all those who were sincerely attached to him; and the best established fortune would have been ruined at some period by a jest much less severe: for it was delivered in the presence of witnesses, who were only desirous of having an opportunity of representing ...
— The Memoirs of Count Grammont, Complete • Anthony Hamilton
... I knew, in Pennsylvania, a child, as fine, and as sprightly, and as intelligent a child as ever was born, made an ideot for life by being, when about three years old, shut into a dark closet, by a maid servant, in order to terrify it into silence. The thoughtless creature first menaced it with sending it to 'the bad place,' as the phrase is there; and, at last, to reduce it to silence, put it into the closet, shut the door, and went out of the room. ...
— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett
... She believed these girls had arranged to terrify their victims by some manifestation at the fountain—why, otherwise, had they sent Helen there and now were determined to make Ruth repeat the experience? Nor was it necessary for the leader of the crew of hazers to remind the girl from the Red Mill how unpleasant ...
— Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - or Solving the Campus Mystery • Alice B. Emerson
... of how the ancient Germans when drawn up in battle array used to sing a sort of war song to terrify their enemies. ...
— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard
... for being the only month in which one does not like cats. June, too, perhaps; but, after that, one does not mind if the garden is full of cats. One likes to have a wild beast whose movements, lazy as those of Satan, will terrify the childish birds out of the gooseberry bushes and the raspberries and strawberries. He will not, we know, have much chance of catching them as late as that. They will be as cunning as he, and the robin will wind his alarum-clock, the starling in the plum-tree will cry out ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd


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