| 单词 | terrorize |
| 释义 | terrorize (once / 5263 pages) v When you terrorize someone, you act in a way that makes that person feel terrified, or full of fear. A bully might terrorize his younger victims by threatening to beat them up. There are more and less serious ways to terrorize someone: actual terrorists, who use violence to achieve political goals, are a classic example of people who terrorize. A less grim way to terrorize might be an older sister coercing a younger brother into doing her chores by threatening to hide his favorite toys. In either case, the victim experiences some degree of fear, and the person who terrorizes feels a sense of power and control. WORD FAMILYterrorize: terrorization, terrorized, terrorizes, terrorizing+/terrified: terrifiedly/terrify: terrified, terrifies, terrifying/terrifying: terrifyingly/terror: counterterror, terrify, terrorise, terrorism, terrorize, terrors/terrorise: terrorisation, terrorised, terrorises, terrorising/terrorism: terrorist/terrorist: terrorists USAGE EXAMPLES“This is a targeted strategy to terrorize civilians and to kill anybody and everybody who is in the way of their military objectives,” U.S. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Residents said they were terrorized by armed gangs who regularly robbed farmers, carjacked vehicles and held villagers for ransom. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Their jobs aren’t to protect and serve; their jobs are to terrorize and enforce. Salon(Dec 26, 2016) 1v coerce by violence or with threats Syn|Hyper terrorise coerce, force, hale, pressure, squeeze to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city" 2v fill with terror; frighten greatly Syn|Hypo|Hyper terrify, terrorise panic cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic affright, fright, frighten, scare cause fear in |
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