verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a terrified scream (= by someone who is terrified )
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I let out a terrified scream and scuttled down the stairs.
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
more
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And failure was more terrifying than sin.
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Now the dream seems much more terrifying .
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We learn that we're even more terrified of the wasps than we ever realized.
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The unknown is always more terrifying than the known, no matter how unsatisfactory the present may be.
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Not knowing the world that lies concealed behind those words is a more terrifying feeling.
most
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The jams are the most terrifying part of the Shuto.
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It had been the most terrifying experience of his life.
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But unlike microlights they can cope deftly with the most terrifying low-level turbulence.
so
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And she was so terrified she let him take me to - he said - the women's hospital.
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The thought of dying had not been half so terrifying as the thought of living without them.
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I was so terrified of losing him, for I sensed there would never be another love like this in my life.
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Ram Rahim was still overloaded and by now so terrified that he shied at passing trucks.
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Mr Stannard had so terrified him that he'd not looked behind first.
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As an adult, he was so terrified of conducting his music that he feared his head would fall off.
too
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She said she was too terrified to visit her brother again.
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I am too terrified to bear it, and I pass out.
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A woman who spoke to detectives last year could have a vital clue, but be too terrified to telephone again.
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For three days the people of Tivoli Gardens and Denham Town were too terrified to pick up the dead or buy food.
■ NOUN
child
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She's terrified of children , she hates strangers and anything electrical - especially the washing machine, and the Hoover.
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The thought of such a thing terrified the child .
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She told Newsweek magazine that Mia, Allen's lover for 12 years, was hot-tempered and terrified her children .
woman
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Like many celibates, he was terrified of women and of their power to attract.
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They then invented various spirit beings who would terrify the women and keep them away from the lodge and from knowledge.
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I smiled back in a half-witted way that would have terrified a woman of less spirit.
■ VERB
seem
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They seem so brittle they terrify me.
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Now the dream seems much more terrifying .
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However, sometimes, these seem less important than terrifying the public.
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The children seemed terrified by the noise and by the visible proof of how close it had come.
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Players on Cincinnati and Wisconsin-Green Bay seemed terrified at the prospect of allowing an easy shot.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
frighten/scare/terrify sb out of their wits
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It terrified him to think that, in six months time, he would have to stand up in front of a class and teach them something.
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My uncle suffers from agoraphobia, and the idea of leaving the house terrifies him.
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Speaking in public terrifies me.
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The idea of going down into the caves terrified her.
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The teacher terrified her so much, that she hated going to school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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They hauled us into a huge corporate office in Capitol; 1, 000 people were there and it totally terrified me.