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third-person singular simple present terrorises, present participle terrorising, simple past and past participle terrorised
To inflict someone with terror; to terrify. quotations examples
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…
1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence. examples