terrify
verb (used with object)
to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
will terrify
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future tenseof terrify.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Katie Gauche, of the Disabled Children's Partnership, said the idea of scrapping plans will "terrify families".
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025
But if you’re looking for something more poetic — and more grounded — about the body horrors of fertility, “Reproduction” will terrify and surprise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
In news that will terrify 15 percent of the White House staff, Major Biden, the president’s 3-year-old German shepherd, is back in Washington and looking to sink his teeth back into the nation’s affairs.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2021
"Nobody values anything more than his or her life, and any system that takes away your life will terrify you," said Ms. Anand.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2012
What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.”
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
