"terrorize" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˈtɛɹəɹaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-terrorize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: terrorizes [present, singular, third-person], terrorizing [participle, present], terrorized [participle, past], terrorized [past]
Etymology: terror + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|terror|ize}} terror + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} terrorize (third-person singular simple present terrorizes, present participle terrorizing, simple past and past participle terrorized)
  1. To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Categories (topical): Fear Synonyms (fill with terror): petrify, terrify Translations (fill with terror): тэрарызава́ць (teraryzavácʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Belarusian), тероризирам (teroriziram) (Bulgarian), terroritzar (Catalan), terroriser (French), terrorisieren (German), τρομοκρατώ (tromokrató) (Greek), terrorizál (Hungarian), megfélemlít (Hungarian), terrorizzare (Italian), terorizēt (Latvian), terroryzować [imperfective] (Polish), sterroryzować [perfective] (Polish), терроризи́ровать (terrorizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), terrorisera (Swedish), тероризува́ти (teroryzuváty) [imperfective, perfective] (Ukrainian), стероризува́ти (steroryzuváty) [perfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-terrorize-en-verb-mfqKsgzE Disambiguation of Fear: 58 42 Disambiguation of 'fill with terror': 96 4 Disambiguation of 'fill with terror': 96 4
  2. To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence. Tags: British, English, Oxford, US, transitive Synonyms (coerce by threats or violence): bully, hector
    Sense id: en-terrorize-en-verb-TLWXcPyL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ize, Oxford spellings Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 83 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 13 87 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 28 72 Disambiguation of Oxford spellings: 10 90 Disambiguation of 'coerce by threats or violence': 6 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: terrorise (english: non-Oxford British English) Derived forms: counter-terrorize Related terms: terrorism, terrorist

Inflected forms

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