verb
1. coerce by violence or with threats
• Syn: ↑terrorize
• Derivationally related forms: ↑terrorisation, ↑terror, ↑terrorization (for: ↑terrorize), ↑terror (for: ↑terrorize)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
2. fill with terror; frighten greatly
• Derivationally related forms: ↑terrorisation, ↑terror, ↑terrorization (for: ↑terrorize), ↑terror (for: ↑terrorize), ↑terror (for: ↑terrify)
• Hyponyms: ↑panic
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
Useful english dictionary. 2012.