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terrorize, v.|ˈtɛrəraɪz|
[f. terror + -ize.]
1. trans. To fill or inspire with terror, reduce to a state of terror; esp. to coerce or deter by terror.
1823Douglas, or, Field of Otterburn II. iii. 33 This was, alas! no crafty scheme to terrorize my mind. 1874H. R. Reynolds John Bapt. iv. v. 260 He bade them [soldiers] to terrorize no one. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. i. ii. 18 Superstitions which yet more or less..terrorise the ignorant.
2. intr. To rule, or maintain power, by terrorism; to practise intimidation. (After tyrannize.)
1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. xxxvii, It is one of Kate's fancies to terrorise thus over weak minds. 1870Daily News 9 Sept. 6 Count Bismarck..openly..terrorized over the Prussian Chamber by relying upon the support of the army.
Hence ˈterrorized ppl. a.; ˈterrorizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also terroriˈzation, the action of terrorizing; ˈterrorizer, one who terrorizes.
1889Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 26 Jan., The White Caps..began their cowardly and brutal work of *terrorization in the great state of Ohio. 1903Contemp. Rev. Oct. 586 The Powers can do much by terrorisation.
1865Sat. Rev. 22 Apr. 470/2 The whimpering and *terrorized suppliants against High Church domination.
1892Ibid. 19 Mar. 330/1 Night gangs of masked *terrorizers.
1880McCarthy Own Times IV. liv. 153 It began to be common talk that among the trades-associations there was systematic *terrorising of the worst kind.
1865Sat. Rev. 12 Aug. 194/2 A *terrorizing collection of ghastly models and pseudo-medical specimens. |