terrifyv.

Brit.

/ˈtɛrᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈtɛrəˌfaɪ/

Forms: 1500s terrefye, 1500s terryfie, 1500s terryfye, 1500s teryfie, 1500s–1600s terrefie, 1500s–1600s terrefy, 1500s–1600s terrifye, 1500s–1700s terrifie, 1600s terefie, 1600s terryfy, 1600s– terrify; English regional 1800s– tarrify, 1800s– torrify (Kent), 1800s– turrivy (Berkshire), 1900s– tarrafy (East Anglian); also Scottish pre-1700 terrifeid (past participle), pre-1700 terrifeit (past tense), 1800s– terrifee.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin terrificāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin terrificāre to frighten, alarm < terrificus terrific adj.: see -fy suffix. Compare Middle French, French terrifier (1558; rare before late 18th cent.), Italian (rare) terrificare (a1512).

a. transitive. To make (a person or animal) very afraid; to fill with terror, to frighten or alarm greatly. Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)]

afearOE

affrightOE

breec1000

offrightlOE

agastc1225

offearc1225

dreadc1250

agrisec1275

begallowc1320

ashunchc1325

adreadc1330

affrayc1330

fleya1400

grise1513

terrify1536

fray-bug1551

thunderbolta1586

fear-blast1593

gaster1593

hazen1593

terrorc1595

affrighten1615

ter-terrifya1618

flaite1642

pavefy1656

repall1687

hobgoblin1707

scarify1794

to scare the daylights out of1951

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. B.vi, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes For the conscience terrified by the lawe, fleeth the iudgement of god.

1573 J. Davidson in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 291 Ane Moderatour Quhais presence..terrifeit baith theif and tratour.

1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 501 Thou terrifiest none but such as most horribly are afraid of thee.

1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) ii. 15 No Conscience to accuse, no Devil to terrifie.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 33 Fear, the Beadle of the law, terrified them from the beginning.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 204 They had..terrified the People with Blood-Spectacles.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 215 The fowler then discovers himself, and terrifies the quail, who..entangles himself the more in the net, and is taken.

1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. 260 It seemed..too unnatural to the character of the spot invaded to do more than to terrify and to disappear.

1858 Harper's Mag. Dec. 29/1 The Spaniards, terrified at the sudden apparition, fled..into the surrounding forest.

1919 Z. Grey Desert of Wheat xxvi. 315 That shell had exploded close to the place where Dorn stood. It terrified him.

1963 Life 2 Aug. 11/4 She was terrified at facing the trial and the disgrace she was sure it would bring.

2005 Guardian 1 Nov. i. 23/1 An apparent attempt to limit reporting on..the use of ‘sonic bombs’ to terrify the local population.

b. transitive. To alarm or frighten (someone) from, out of, into, or to a place, state, condition, course of action, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > deter

fearc1380

abster1542

terrify1575

deter1578

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] > drive to through terror

terrify1823

1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians iii. 3. 100 b To exhort the Galathians, and to terrifie them from a double daunger.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 7 To terrifie their soldiers from demanding of their paies due.

1605 J. Dove Confut. Atheisme 5 The Scriptures were devised by men..to keep subiects in obedience to lawes, and loyaltie to Magistrates, by thus terrifying them from enormities.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 53 Those very angels which terrified them both from the tree.

1715 H. Carey Contrivances 29 We are his Majesty's liege subjects, and were terrified out of our habitations..by a cry from abroad.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vi. 38 His answer..terrified the poor beseecher into immediate silence.

1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. xi. 276 It may terrify her to death in the present weak state of her nerves.

1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland iii. 66 The people who remained were at length becoming terrified into orthodoxy.

1891 Notes & Queries 28 Nov. 437/2 A big dark man in a strange sombrero hat..terrified her from going up in it.

1938 Washington Post 24 Oct. 7/1 Parents..and doctors try to terrify adolescents into chastity by describing the horrors of venereal disease.

1950 F. R. Kensinger Sense of Destination in Epoch 3 30 Grandma Westerman had huddled there with her brothers and sisters, terrified into wordlessness.

1996 Independent on Sunday 6 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 32/2 Another says the true curriculum of schools is..to bully and terrify children out of their innocence.

2. transitive. To irritate, worry, bother; to harass; to tease. English regional (southern) in later use. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > discomfort

disquiet1530

discompose1603

terrify1641

discomfort1806

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 50 Working only by terrifying plaisters upon the rind & orifice of the sore.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Terrify, to teize; irritate; annoy. A blister or a caustic is said to terrify a patient.

1876 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 6 56/1 He has been terrified all night by those insects.

1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village viii. 164 ‘Terrify him, sir; keep on terrifying of him’. This does not mean that you are to frighten the fish; on the contrary, he is urging you to stick to him till he gets tired of being harassed.

1913 E. Thomas Icknield Way viii. 215 Outside, the flies were ‘terrifying’ the horses for the first time in the summer.

1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 59 When we first went to Rodmell, I had a man who did my garden and talked the same language. Dedman would say to me: ‘Them birds do so terrify the peas, I must put a net over them.’

†3. transitive. To make (something) terrible. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] > make terrible

terriblize1606

terrify1644

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 35 If the Law in stead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out licence, it foils it selfe.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	terrify
释义	terrifyv. Brit. /ˈtɛrᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈtɛrəˌfaɪ/ Forms: 1500s terrefye, 1500s terryfie, 1500s terryfye, 1500s teryfie, 1500s–1600s terrefie, 1500s–1600s terrefy, 1500s–1600s terrifye, 1500s–1700s terrifie, 1600s terefie, 1600s terryfy, 1600s– terrify; English regional 1800s– tarrify, 1800s– torrify (Kent), 1800s– turrivy (Berkshire), 1900s– tarrafy (East Anglian); also Scottish pre-1700 terrifeid (past participle), pre-1700 terrifeit (past tense), 1800s– terrifee. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin terrificāre. Etymology: < classical Latin terrificāre to frighten, alarm < terrificus terrific adj.: see -fy suffix. Compare Middle French, French terrifier (1558; rare before late 18th cent.), Italian (rare) terrificare (a1512). 1. a. transitive. To make (a person or animal) very afraid; to fill with terror, to frighten or alarm greatly. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] afearOE affrightOE breec1000 offrightlOE agastc1225 offearc1225 dreadc1250 agrisec1275 begallowc1320 ashunchc1325 adreadc1330 affrayc1330 fleya1400 grise1513 terrify1536 fray-bug1551 thunderbolta1586 fear-blast1593 gaster1593 hazen1593 terrorc1595 affrighten1615 ter-terrifya1618 flaite1642 pavefy1656 repall1687 hobgoblin1707 scarify1794 to scare the daylights out of1951 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. B.vi, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes For the conscience terrified by the lawe, fleeth the iudgement of god. 1573 J. Davidson in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 291 Ane Moderatour Quhais presence..terrifeit baith theif and tratour. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 501 Thou terrifiest none but such as most horribly are afraid of thee. 1638 Penit. Conf. (1657) ii. 15 No Conscience to accuse, no Devil to terrifie. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico ii. 33 Fear, the Beadle of the law, terrified them from the beginning. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 204 They had..terrified the People with Blood-Spectacles. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 215 The fowler then discovers himself, and terrifies the quail, who..entangles himself the more in the net, and is taken. 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram II. iv. 260 It seemed..too unnatural to the character of the spot invaded to do more than to terrify and to disappear. 1858 Harper's Mag. Dec. 29/1 The Spaniards, terrified at the sudden apparition, fled..into the surrounding forest. 1919 Z. Grey Desert of Wheat xxvi. 315 That shell had exploded close to the place where Dorn stood. It terrified him. 1963 Life 2 Aug. 11/4 She was terrified at facing the trial and the disgrace she was sure it would bring. 2005 Guardian 1 Nov. i. 23/1 An apparent attempt to limit reporting on..the use of ‘sonic bombs’ to terrify the local population. b. transitive. To alarm or frighten (someone) from, out of, into, or to a place, state, condition, course of action, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > demotivation > demotivate [verb (transitive)] > deter fearc1380 abster1542 terrify1575 deter1578 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > terrify [verb (transitive)] > drive to through terror terrify1823 1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians iii. 3. 100 b To exhort the Galathians, and to terrifie them from a double daunger. 1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. 7 To terrifie their soldiers from demanding of their paies due. 1605 J. Dove Confut. Atheisme 5 The Scriptures were devised by men..to keep subiects in obedience to lawes, and loyaltie to Magistrates, by thus terrifying them from enormities. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 53 Those very angels which terrified them both from the tree. 1715 H. Carey Contrivances 29 We are his Majesty's liege subjects, and were terrified out of our habitations..by a cry from abroad. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vi. 38 His answer..terrified the poor beseecher into immediate silence. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. xi. 276 It may terrify her to death in the present weak state of her nerves. 1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland iii. 66 The people who remained were at length becoming terrified into orthodoxy. 1891 Notes & Queries 28 Nov. 437/2 A big dark man in a strange sombrero hat..terrified her from going up in it. 1938 Washington Post 24 Oct. 7/1 Parents..and doctors try to terrify adolescents into chastity by describing the horrors of venereal disease. 1950 F. R. Kensinger Sense of Destination in Epoch 3 30 Grandma Westerman had huddled there with her brothers and sisters, terrified into wordlessness. 1996 Independent on Sunday 6 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 32/2 Another says the true curriculum of schools is..to bully and terrify children out of their innocence. 2. transitive. To irritate, worry, bother; to harass; to tease. English regional (southern) in later use. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > discomfort disquiet1530 discompose1603 terrify1641 discomfort1806 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 50 Working only by terrifying plaisters upon the rind & orifice of the sore. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Terrify, to teize; irritate; annoy. A blister or a caustic is said to terrify a patient. 1876 Notes & Queries 5th Ser. 6 56/1 He has been terrified all night by those insects. 1898 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village viii. 164 ‘Terrify him, sir; keep on terrifying of him’. This does not mean that you are to frighten the fish; on the contrary, he is urging you to stick to him till he gets tired of being harassed. 1913 E. Thomas Icknield Way viii. 215 Outside, the flies were ‘terrifying’ the horses for the first time in the summer. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 59 When we first went to Rodmell, I had a man who did my garden and talked the same language. Dedman would say to me: ‘Them birds do so terrify the peas, I must put a net over them.’ †3. transitive. To make (something) terrible. Obsolete. rare. 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