terrorise
See also: terrorisé
English
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terrorise (third-person singular simple present terrorises, present participle terrorising, simple past and past participle terrorised) (non-Oxford British English, transitive)
- To inflict someone with terror; to terrify.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:, Episode 16
- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head…
- To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
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fill with terror — see terrorize
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terrorise
- inflection of terroriser: