What does Terrify mean?
Definitions for Terrify
ˈtɛr əˌfaɪter·ri·fy
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Princeton's WordNet
terrify, terrorize, terroriseverb
fill with terror; frighten greatly
Wiktionary
terrifyverb
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
terrifyverb
To menace or intimidate.
terrifyverb
To make terrible.
Etymology: From terrificare
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Terrifyverb
To fright; to shock with fear; to make afraid.
Etymology: terror and sacio, Latin.
Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. Job vii. 14.
Simon slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus. 2 Mac. iv. 1.
In nothing terrified by your adversaries. Phil. i. 28.
Neither doth it beseem this most wealthy state to be terrified from that which is right with any charges of war. Richard Knolles.
The amazing difficulty of his account will rather terrify than inform him, and keep him from setting heartily about such a task as he despairs ever to go through with. South.
Meteors for various purposes to form;
The breeze to cheer, to terrify the storm. Richard Blackmore.
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terrify
To terrify means to cause extreme fear or dread in someone; to frighten someone deeply or severely, often raising feelings of anxiety, panic, or horror.
Webster Dictionary
Terrifyverb
to make terrible
Terrifyverb
to alarm or shock with fear; to frighten
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Terrify
ter′i-fī, v.t. to cause terror in: to frighten greatly: to alarm:—pa.t. and pa.p. terr′ifīed.—adj. Terrif′ic, creating or causing terror: fitted to terrify: dreadful.—adv. Terrif′ically. [L. terrēre, to terrify, facĕre, to make.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Terrify in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Terrify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Terrify in a Sentence
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem against them I feel quite confident.
Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan:
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors--they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.
Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
I’m a Marine Corps veteran, so it takes a lot to terrify me.
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
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