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be terror-stricken

VERB
panic
Synonyms
STRONGEST
lose it overreact scare
STRONG
alarm clutch stampede startle terrify unnerve
WEAK
become hysterical come apart freeze up go to pieces have a fit lose nerve push panic button run scared shake in boots
Antonyms
STRONG
calm
WEAK
be calm be content

Example Sentences

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Awakened by the noise and rumor, guests, feudal retainers, servants, and attendants rush to the spot, each in turn to be terror-stricken at the threshold, to move within awed and silent.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

All soldiers stationed anywhere else will emulate you and foes will be terror-stricken.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

The country through which they passed seemed to be terror-stricken.

From The Courier of the Ozarks by Dunn, Byron A. (Byron Archibald)