terrify
verb/ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/
Etymology From Middle French terrifier, from Latin terrificare.
1
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
2
To menace or intimidate.
- Your men are valiant but their number few, And cannot terrifie his mightie hoſt, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
3
Obsolete To make terrible.
- Derived terms
- unterrifiable