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US
/ˈtɛɹɝˌaɪz/
]
VERB
- fill with terror; frighten greatly
- coerce by violence or with threats
How To Use terrorize In A Sentence
- Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
- He then continued to terrorise families in the restaurant as amused staff watched. The Sun
- Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
- All kinds of groups use fear to terrorize the loners and coerce fealty from those who don't want to be a target.
- Sideshow Bob terrorizes Bart after he is paroled from prison.
- They can be real nice to you when you are the passenger, but when you are a fellow motorist, they will terrorize you.
- Why not just give him his own show, like Russell Hantz's Texas, and show him swindling women and children out of their welfare checks, and then giggling over what "patsies" they were, before going home to terrorize his wife and daughters? Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Rerun Island:
- They've played before and are a perfect match when it comes to energy levels and desire to terrorize the other until both have passed out from mental exhaustion.
- THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
- A child who had been terrorized and quite possibly emotionally and sexually abused by an adult kidnaper for four years. O'REILLY ABUSES THE ABUSED: Then Lies That He's Done So