English
Etymology
From terror + -ize.
Pronunciation
Verb
terrorize (third-person singular simple present terrorizes, present participle terrorizing, simple past and past participle terrorized) (transitive, American spelling, Oxford British English)
- To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.
terrorize the population
terrorize civilians
The gang continued to terrorize the neighborhood.
She felt terrorized by the constant threats.
- To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
fill with terror
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
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- Belarusian: тэрарызава́ць impf or pf (teraryzavácʹ)
- Bulgarian: тероризирам (bg) (teroriziram)
- Catalan: terroritzar (ca)
- Chinese:
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- French: terroriser (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: terrorisieren (de)
- Greek: τρομοκρατώ (el) (tromokrató)
- Hungarian: terrorizál (hu), megfélemlít (hu)
- Italian: terrorizzare (it)
- Latin: terreō
- Latvian: terorizēt
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: terroryzować (pl) impf, sterroryzować (pl) pf
- Romanian: please add this translation if you can
- Russian: терроризи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (terrorizírovatʹ)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: terrorizar, aterrorizar (es)
- Swedish: terrorisera (sv)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: тероризува́ти impf or pf (teroryzuváty), стероризува́ти pf (steroryzuváty)
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Further reading
- “terrorize”, in Oxford Learner's Dictionaries