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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



... accompanied by the greater part of their families, and encamped for several days at this immense nursery, near Shelbyville, Kentucky, forty miles long, and several miles in breadth. The noise in the woods was so great as to terrify their horses, and it was difficult for one person to hear another speak without bawling in his ear. The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... there were that gave counsel to go against them with all their forces, and to fright and terrify them, if they made slow ...
— English Past and Present • Richard Chenevix Trench
... but mothers need not always be harsh. To make a girl docile you need not make her miserable; to make her modest you need not terrify her; on the contrary, I should not be sorry to see her allowed occasionally to exercise a little ingenuity, not to escape punishment for her disobedience, but to evade the necessity for obedience. Her dependence need not be made unpleasant, ...
— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
... commissioners, without doubt, used Greeley as a convenient tool, and exhibited him as Don Quixote, riding forth upon a windmill enterprise. But Greeley had the courage of his opinions; threats could not cow him nor blows terrify him, nor scorn and hate drive him from a position which he had taken upon grounds of conscience and ...
— The Battle of Principles - A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict • Newell Dwight Hillis
... anything rashly, and seemed to doubt whether these different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire men in a different manner, and be pleased with the variety. He therefore thought it to be indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another, to make him believe what did not strike him ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier


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