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All terrify synonyms

ter·ri·fy
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verb terrify

  • fright — sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
  • intimidate — to make timid; fill with fear.
  • molest — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
  • dismay — to break down the courage of completely, as by sudden danger or trouble; dishearten thoroughly; daunt: The surprise attack dismayed the enemy.
  • gross out — something that is disgustingly offensive.
  • consternate — to fill with anxiety, dismay, dread, or confusion
  • bludgeoned — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
  • grossed out — without deductions; total, as the amount of sales, salary, profit, etc., before taking deductions for expenses, taxes, or the like (opposed to net2. ): gross earnings; gross sales.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • overawe — to restrain or subdue by inspiring awe; intimidate: He often uses that imperious scowl to overawe his subordinates.
  • alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
  • haunt — to visit habitually or appear to frequently as a spirit or ghost: to haunt a house; to haunt a person.
  • hotdog — to perform unusual or very intricate maneuvers in a sport, especially surfing or skiing.
  • affright — to frighten
  • bludgeoning — a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other.
  • make one's blood run cold — the fluid that circulates in the principal vascular system of human beings and other vertebrates, in humans consisting of plasma in which the red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are suspended.
  • buffalo — A buffalo is a wild animal like a large cow with horns that curve upwards. Buffalo are usually found in southern and eastern Africa.
  • overawed — Impress (someone) so much that they become silent or inhibited.
  • make one's hair stand on end — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • muck up — a bungled or disordered situation; foul-up.
  • hotdogging — the act of one who hot-dogs; the performance of intricate, daring, or flamboyant stunts.
  • have a fit — become angry, upset
  • daunt — If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
  • dragoons — Plural form of dragoon.
  • lean on — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • get to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • blow away — If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
  • appal — If something appals you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
  • dragoon — (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop.
  • appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
  • got to — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • awe — Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with something wonderful and often rather frightening.
  • horrify — to cause to feel horror; strike with horror: The accident horrified us all.
  • lose it — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
  • buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
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