释义 |
terrorizeter‧ror‧ize (also terrorise British English) /ˈterəraɪz/ verb [transitive] VERB TABLEterrorize |
Present | I, you, we, they | terrorize | | he, she, it | terrorizes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | terrorized | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have terrorized | | he, she, it | has terrorized | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had terrorized | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will terrorize | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have terrorized |
|
Present | I | am terrorizing | | he, she, it | is terrorizing | | you, we, they | are terrorizing | Past | I, he, she, it | was terrorizing | | you, we, they | were terrorizing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been terrorizing | | he, she, it | has been terrorizing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been terrorizing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be terrorizing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been terrorizing |
- A gang of youths are roaming the city, vandalising stores, starting fires, and terrorizing people.
- Drug dealers have been terrorizing the neighborhood.
- Some of the older children dominated the playground and terrorized the smaller kids.
- With threats, beatings, and even murder, the workers were terrorized into leaving their unions.
- Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
- Her imagination took hold of the idea and terrorized her at the thought of the hospital catching fire.
- Nature blesses, haunts and terrorizes Inverness.
- The terrorized novice promptly returned it, claiming that he was being haunted by apparitions for his act.
- The local railway administrators were terrorized into collaborating.
- We renew our fight against those who seek to terrorize us in your names.
- Wilson said that post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers who have been terrorized typically fear imminent death.
to deliberately frighten someone► frighten/scare somebody into something to make someone feel frightened about what will happen if they do not do something, so that they do it. Scare somebody into is more informal than frighten somebody into: frighten/scare somebody into doing something: · The Nationalists kept talking about the "Communist threat" to scare people into voting for them.· Stapleton had tried to frighten her into keeping quiet, but she had refused to be intimidated. ► terrorize also terrorise British to deliberately frighten people over a long period of time, by using violence or by threatening them, especially in order to make them do what you want: · Some of the older children dominated the playground and terrorized the smaller kids.· A gang of youths are roaming the city, vandalising stores, starting fires, and terrorizing people.terrorize somebody into doing something (=make someone do something by using violence, threats etc): · With threats, beatings, and even murder, the workers were terrorized into leaving their unions. to deliberately frighten people by threatening to harm them, especially so they will do what you wantbe terrorized into doing something Many people have been terrorized into leaving. gangs who terrorize the neighbourhood |