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terrify
verb as in scare
Example Sentences
When she loses her cycle, she is forced to run up the helix of a parking garage at normal human speed, giving a pathetic comedic element to someone who ought to be terrifying.
Skeletal replicas of the terrifying mosasaur, a Komodo Dragon relative with a six-foot jaw; the saber-toothed salmon; and other extinct species greet visitors in the museum’s entrance hall.
As Laura, the foster mother in “Bring Her Back,” Ms. Hawkins turns the smile up to terrifying.
“It had everyone terrified,” he said, saying the neighborhood over the years has had a high concentration of people who have died from cancer and respiratory illnesses.
“They were terrified,” Daniels said of the visa-holders, given the weekend uncertainty over the new rules.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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