terrify
Origin of terrify
Synonym study
Examples from the Web for terrified
Contemporary Examples of terrified
He backed away and walked down the corridor as a file of terrified patients pressed themselves against the walls.
I kneel with the journalist in the sand, my face stoic and yet terrified, crying, knowing that I can do nothing but wait.
“My sister and her children are terrified,” said Iraqi Yazidi Faisal Fhaqooli, speaking from Lincoln, Nebraska, on Wednesday.
The Islamist militants seemed to be terrified of these notorious female fighters.
Terrified citizens of these nations started running to the United States by the tens of thousands.
Historical Examples of terrified
And as she dropped them she saw the terrified face of Cornelius open its eyes.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Her voice was that with which one seeks to cajole a terrified infant.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
But that afternoon of the first day at home she was terrified.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
What had so terrified the kongoni it would be impossible to say.
The Leopard WomanStewart Edward White
It was simply a concert of howling monkeys that had so terrified me!
Green MansionsW. H. Hudson