亚洲网紅露点

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terrify

[ ter-uh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

terrified, terrifying.
  1. to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.


terrify

/ 藞迟蓻谤瑟藢蹿补瑟 /

verb

  1. tr to inspire fear or dread in; frighten greatly
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞迟别谤谤颈藢蹿颈别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 迟别谤顎价颈路蹿颈顎卐谤 noun
  • 迟别谤顎价颈路蹿测顎卛苍驳路濒测 adverb
  • 耻苍路迟别谤顎价颈路蹿颈别诲顎 adjective
  • 耻苍路迟别谤顎价颈路蹿测顎卛苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of terrify1

1565鈥75; < Latin 迟别谤谤颈蹿颈肠腻谤别, equivalent to terr ( 脓谤别 ) to frighten + -颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 -ify
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of terrify1

C16: from Latin 迟别谤谤颈蹿颈肠腻谤别, from terr脓谤别 to alarm + facere to cause
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"Whilst losing sight in one eye is terrifying," she says, "my biggest fear was that it might spread to my left eye."

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In the run-up to the 2024 election, on cable news shows and at dinner tables, Americans debated a question that terrified various groups of us for various reasons.

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The footage then shows him slamming the door on her foot and kicking the car window before dragging her terrified pet dog away by its lead.

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Virgil is vicious and terrifying, and, as Bailey puts it in an interview, 鈥淭here is no quicker shorthand for a scumbag than someone who is beating up a defenseless woman.鈥

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We see it in the infamous "Mar-a-Lago" face, which uses plastic surgery and spackled-on make-up to turn women into terrifyingly exaggerated caricatures of femininity.

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