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      • A person who becomes ill presents terrifying symptoms that cause panic : jaundice, high fever, internal hemorrhage and vomiting of black blood.
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  2. The meaning of TERRIFY is to drive or impel by menacing : scare. How to use terrify in a sentence.

  3. A person who becomes ill presents terrifying symptoms that cause panic : jaundice, high fever, internal hemorrhage and vomiting of black blood. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The bird is terrified and tries to fly away from the kite. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

  4. Terrify definition: to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.. See examples of TERRIFY used in a sentence.

  5. to frighten someone very much: The idea of parachuting out of a plane terrifies me. Compare. frighten. scare verb. terrorize. Fewer examples. Our math teacher terrified all the children. I'm terrified by spiders. The thought of being stuck underground terrified him. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

  6. Definition of terrify verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

  7. There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb terrify, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  8. verb. fill with terror; frighten greatly. synonyms: terrorise, terrorize. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Terrify." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/terrify. Accessed 17 May. 2024. Copy citation. Examples from books and articles. loading examples... Word Family. terrified terrifying.

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