Definitions for terrify
ˈtɛr əˌfaɪter·ri·fy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. terrify, terrorize, terroriseverb

   fill with terror; frighten greatly

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. terrifyverb

   To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.

2. terrifyverb

   To menace or intimidate.

3. terrifyverb

   To make terrible.

4. Etymology: From terrificare

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Terrifyverb

   to make terrible

2. Terrifyverb

   to alarm or shock with fear; to frighten

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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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1. • Frighten

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of terrify in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of terrify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of terrify in a Sentence

1. Gordon Lawson:

   I’m a Marine Corps veteran, so it takes a lot to terrify me.

2. El Paso in which O'Rourke:

   The two seemed very connected to me in a very obvious way -- this manner of terrorizing people and trying to terrify the country about immigrants and Hispanics and people who are really the most vulnerable and the most defenseless in Las Americas, and I said, I want to be there. I want to go there. And I want to go anywhere where people are being kept down or made to be afraid.

3. Mark Milley:

   They tried to destroy us. They tried to divide us, and they tried ultimately in vain, to terrify us, but their murderous intent was never realized.

4. Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason":

   All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

5. 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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=terrify
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Terrify
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=terrify
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terrify
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=terrify