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terrorise

verb

Etymology

From terror + -ise.

  1. derived from *tre-✻
  2. derived from *trozeō✻
  3. derived from tr̥reō
  4. derived from terror — “fright, fear, terror”
  5. derived from terreur
  6. inherited from terrour
  7. suffixed as terrorise — “terror + -ise”

Definitions

  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize.

    • Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head…

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