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Terrifying   /tˈɛrəfˌaɪɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Terrify  v. t.  (past & past part. terrified; pres. part. terrifying)  
1.
To make terrible. (Obs.) "If the law, instead of aggravating and terrifying sin, shall give out license, it foils itself."
2.
To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten. "When ye shall hear of wars... be not terrified."





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"Terrifying" Quotes from Famous Books



... alighted in her life when she was nineteen (I felt with a pang that I had still a whole year to wait) and he was twenty-one. Aunt Emmy waxed boldly eloquent in her description of his unique and heroic character, shyly eloquent in her dispassionate indication of his almost terrifying beauty. ...
— The Lowest Rung - Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy • Mary Cholmondeley
... She thought They might be brutal wardens and assembled before her, in a terrifying battalion, the strait-jackets and tortures she'd found in some of ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown
... of the sentence in verse 16: 'John whom I beheaded, he is,' etc. The terrified king blurts out the name of his dread first, then tremblingly takes the guilt of the deed to himself, and last speaks the terrifying thought that he is risen. A man who has a sin in his memory can never be sure that its ghost will not suddenly start up. Trivial incidents will rouse the sleeping conscience. Some nothing, a chance word, a scent, a sound, the look on a face, the glow of an evening sky, may bring all the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... scowl on his rugged features. Behind him, Tom Corbett and Roger Manning lounged on the dormitory bunks, watching their unit mate blast the freshman cadets and trying to keep from laughing. It wasn't long ago that they had gone through the terrifying experience of being hazed by stern upperclassmen and they knew how the three pink-cheeked boys in front of ...
— Treachery in Outer Space • Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman
... what are you doing," she cried, "trying to conceal thrilling family legends from the nearest relatives? Tell us all about it, if you know, as Dr. Knott declares you do. I dote on terrifying stories—don't you, Mary?—that send the cold shivers all down my back. And if they deal with the history of my nearest and dearest, why, there's an added charm to them. Now, Mr. March, we're all attention. Stand ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet


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