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Verb: terrorize  'te-ru`rIz
  1. Coerce by violence or with threats
    - terrorise [Brit]
     
  2. Fill with terror; frighten greatly
    - terrify, terrorise [Brit]

Derived forms: terrorizing, terrorizes, terrorized

See also: terror, terrorization

Type of: affright, coerce, force, fright, frighten, hale [archaic], pressure, scare, squeeze

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