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English
Etymology
From Middle French terrifier, from Latin terrificare.
Pronunciation
Verb
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: 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
Translations
to frighten greatly; to fill with terror
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