terrify
verb (used with object)
to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
are terrifying
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present progressiveof terrify.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Spoken on a winter day in 1865, however, the words are terrifying to 10-year-old Liam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
The passages recounting her shattered emotional state and her understandable fear of the sedatives that were administered to calm her, are terrifying in their battered simplicity and clarity of purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
If you don’t think kangaroos are terrifying, you’re lying to yourself.
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2023
Here, dragons are terrifying, but in a good way, and certainly not ridiculous.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
In the dark these white patches are terrifying.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
