terrify
Etymology
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Etymology
From
- IPA: /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/
terrify (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: […] [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, […]
- (obsolete) To make terrible.
- See also Thesaurus:frighten
- French: terrifier
- German: erschrecken
- Italian: terrorizzare
- Portuguese: aterrorizar
- Russian: ужаса́ть
- Spanish: aterrar
- Russian: запу́гивать
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