terrify
verb (used with object)
to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
terrifier
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a word derived from
terrify.
Example Sentences
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I think terrifier 2 is my favorite movie of the year???
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
The next happening in Troy that seriously influenced my character was the advent of the Rev. Charles G. Finney, a pulpit orator, who, as a terrifier of human souls, proved himself the equal of Savonarola.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This gratuitous, wicked, humbugging terrifier helped to cause another defeat.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
