adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a terrifying ordeal
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Bruce Gordon has described his terrifying ordeal in a shark attack.
terrifying
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Driving through London in a strange car was a terrifying prospect.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
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When you walked along it, it swung from side to side in a most terrifying fashion.
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And it is still considered the most terrifying experience of many people's lives.
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For the most terrifying fighting man in the world?
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The most terrifying ants of all are those that make no nest but wander through the countryside seeking prey.
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By contrast, his son James V was the most terrifying of his line; but he was no less successful.
■ NOUN
experience
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It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience .
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She wrote a long and moving letter, describing her terrifying experience of being raped whilst on holiday with two friends.
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And it is still considered the most terrifying experience of many people's lives.
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For a child of five this was a terrifying experience , although it was meant to be a birthday treat.
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He knew enough psychology to have at least some insight into what those early shaming and terrifying experiences had done to her.
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Without love it would be a terrifying experience .
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This, as you can imagine, was a terrifying experience , and memories of my hospital stay still frighten me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I opened my eyes, and tried to banish the terrifying images of the plane falling from the sky, and crashing into the sea.
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It had been a terrifying ordeal, but now, at last, he was free.
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Spending a night in jail was a terrifying experience.
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There was a terrifying crash, and the house seemed to shake.
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They stopped me, and I saw that they had a gun. It was terrifying .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And beneath his feet Hencke could hear the terrifying noise of water beginning to slop its way through the bilges.
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In the morning the mad excitement was over, and the dreadful memory of his crime returned - more terrifying than ever.
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It took him more than 30 years before he told anyone other than friends of his terrifying experience.
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Smoke poured from the main bedroom window, and there were terrifying reports as the glass cracked in the heat.
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The heat, the insects, and the debilitating claustrophobia of those few terrifying days often returned to haunt him.
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The senior one was a fearsome, mustachioed amateur cello player who addressed every class in a terrifying bawl.
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Thus is the citizen beset by the vision of a terrifying Trinity - Unaccountability, Inaccessibility and Unintelligibility.