| Pronunciation: | | 'teru`rIz
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| Matching Terms: | | terrorization
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- [v] fill with terror; frighten greatly
- [v] coerce by violence or with threats
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| | Synonyms: | | terrify, terrorise, terrorise |
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| | See Also: | | affright, coerce, force, fright, frighten, hale, panic, pressure, scare |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ter"ror*ize\, v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.]
To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.
Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and
terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. --J. A.
Symonds.
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