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Terrorize   /tˈɛrərˌaɪz/   Listen
Terrorize

verb
1.
Coerce by violence or with threats.  Synonym: terrorise.
2.
Fill with terror; frighten greatly.  Synonyms: terrify, terrorise.






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"Terrorize" Quotes from Famous Books



... last winter—I saw a nasty word written on a fence, and it sent a shudder through me, for I knew it would follow me and make me think of other things like it. I felt, since thoughts have such power to terrorize me, how can I ever get away ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair

... law and order would be battle-girt and the secret body would be on the defensive—perhaps even on the run. If it were to hold the offensive it must strike and terrorize before another day had dawned—and that was not as it had planned ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck

... they saw them subjected drove the others to rebellion, and now, vae victis, the king, on hearing of the rebellion, wrote to Ceron and Diaz (July, 1511): "To 'pacify' the Indians you must go well armed and terrorize them. Take their canoes from them, and if they refuse to be reduced with reason, make war upon them by fire and sword, taking care not to kill more than necessary, and send 40 or 50 of them to 'la Espanola' to serve us as slaves, etc." To Ponce he ...
— The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation • R.A. Van Middeldyk

... eyed one another steadily for a moment. Lablache could in no way terrorize this desperado. Like all his kind this man was ready to sell his services to any master, provided the forthcoming price of such services was sufficiently exorbitant. He was equally ready to play his employer ...
— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum

... face to face, stole furtively into the tendejons of the Mexican quarter and spent money freely in treating. Among the natives Go-Get-'Em Jim was in ill-repute for shooting a bad man named Juan Ortez who had attempted to terrorize the ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine

... to reflect or an opportunity for the reasonable element to intervene. Somewhat similarly the Bourbons in France had hoped to postpone the day of reckoning for their mistakes by misdeeds done in fear to terrorize those who sought reforms. The aristocracy of France paid back tenfold each drop of innocent blood that was shed, but while the unreasoning world recalls the French Revolution with horror, the student of history thinks more of the evils ...
— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig

... honest Will, his handsome face redder than any of the lively imageries she had called up to terrorize his conscience; "I got that front hair fascinater ye wanted, an' I sold the spruce gum for two dollars ...
— Vesty of the Basins • Sarah P. McLean Greene



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