terrify
Etymology

From , from terrificare.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/
Verb

terrify (terrifies, present participle terrifying; simple past and past participle terrified)

  1. To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
  2. To menace or intimidate.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] 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, […]
  3. (obsolete) To make terrible.
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