terrify
verb (used with object)
to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
terrifier
-
a word derived from
terrify.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
I think terrifier 2 is my favorite movie of the year???
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
This gratuitous, wicked, humbugging terrifier helped to cause another defeat.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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
