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ter·ri·fy·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. terrific, terrifyingadjective

    causing extreme terror

    "a terrifying wail"

Wiktionary

  1. terrifyingadjective

    Frightening or intimidating.

  2. terrifyingadjective

    Of a formidable nature; terrific

Wikipedia

  1. Terrifying

    Terrifying is a song by the British rock band The Rolling Stones from their 1989 album Steel Wheels. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The song was also released as a single in 1990 and the B-side was "Wish I'd Never Met You", a song that has never been released on any of their studio albums. "Terrifying" peaked at number eight on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart.

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  1. terrifying

    Terrifying refers to causing extreme fear or dread; horrifying, scary, or vastly alarming. Something can be considered terrifying if it induces a strong sense of anxiety or fearfulness. This term is often used to describe situations, experiences, creatures, or circumstances that elicit a deep-seated, often paralyzing, fear.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Terrifying

    of Terrify

Wikidata

  1. Terrifying

    Terrifying is a single album by The Rolling Stones.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of terrifying in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of terrifying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of terrifying in a Sentence

  1. Jennifer Alvarez:

    She's going off to college.  There's going to be parties. She's going to get invited out to a bar or out to a club, and it's terrifying.

  2. Ted Cruz:

    The local press all covered the substance of what I said, the reactions of what happened, national press, it was all about the little girl and me terrifying her. You can literally read the story side by side as if they're covering Mars and Venus.

  3. Brittany Jencik:

    It was terrifying. I was a little ahead of them in the timing of it all. I was as afraid of my life as I had ever been, and not much scares me, she said, noting the illness hit her and her family like a freight train. Jencik said she and her children are now recovering and remain in isolation. Its not clear how she was initially exposed toCOVID-19. By the time the mom developed symptoms, her children had already been exposed. (iStock) EARLY SYMPTOM OF CORONAVIRUS MIGHT BE DIGESTIVE ISSUES: STUDY A friend who owns a professional cleaning service later sent a team of 12 to thoroughly disinfect their home, she said.The cleaners reportedly donned rubber hazmat suits as they cleaned the home over a two-hour period. I needed to know that I was protecting the people I love to the best extent I possibly could.

  4. Esther Choo:

    The truth is, the sickest patients are terrifying, they are air hungry, dropping their oxygen, confused, distressed. We can never show that. But it is terrifying.

  5. Clive Barnes:

    Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

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