terrify

• She no longer had the necessary will to terrify, and it showed. —  Night Mare
• My demons don't terrify, my aliens don't alienate, my invented worlds look more and more like Houston on a bad smog day. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
• It did terrify, almost into fits, all the tree and ground squirrels within a mile of him, for these creatures went skurrying off to holes and topmost boughs in wild confusion when they heard it echoing through the woods When this fit passed off Tom took to thinking again. —  Twice Bought
• Has any one dared to slander me,--and for what No one would dare to breathe aught of evil against you in my presence," said he, with great dignity; "but the covert whisper may pass from lip to lip, and the meaning glance flash from eye to eye, when your friend and protector is not near to shield you from aspersion, and vindicate your fame Stop," I exclaimed; "you terrify--you destroy me The room spun round like a top. —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• [584] But the passages give the sense of an actual attack on the waves--living things which men might terrify, and perhaps with this was combined the belief that no one could die during a rising tide. —  The Religion of the Ancient Celts

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