verb
definition
To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.
definition
To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
Examples of terrorize in a Sentence
All this was done to terrorize the reactionaries and isolate the tsarevich.
If he thought he could terrorize her, he had another think coming.
In these cases the objective had been to terrorize local populations believed to be helping the Resistance.
These attackers wanted to maim innocent people, to cause as much destruction as possible and to terrorize and divide a nation.
But the Emigrants (see Mahomet) asserted their opposing claims, and with success, having brought into the town a considerable number of outside Moslems, so as to terrorize the men of Medina, who besides were still divided into two parties.
But indeed the whole of this intermediate period is full of dark subterranean plots and counterplots, still inexplicable, as, for instance, the hideous Fersen murder (June 20, 1 810) (see Fersen, Hans Axel Von) evidently intended to terrorize the Gustavians, whose loyalty to the ancient dynasty was notorious.
Apparently, the Black Knight is programmed to terrorize the village whenever anyone enters the library.
This happens just as clan wars threaten to destroy her adoptive family and magical beings terrorize the countryside.
How could anyone go so far as to seduce that pathetic woman, just to get close enough to terrorize his wife?
How did an idle, talentless, disgruntled wastrel come to terrorize a continent?
They would terrorize the community until the winter cold put paid to them.
Fifteen years after being placed in the hospital, Myers manages to escape and goes on to terrorize the town of Haddonfield throughout the rest of the film.
To further terrorize ethnic Albanians, Serbs reportedly looted and burned their homes and shops throughout the town.
Agitated and chilled by the chamber, he transformed into his jaguar form to terrorize more Immortals on his way to hunt the demons in the forest.
Bands of ruffians calling themselves volunteers of liberty were found to defend the Republic, and to terrorize society.
This act of violence, evidently designed to terrorize the Church into submission, was effectual enough, for at the subsequent Riksdag of Vesteras (June, 1527), the bishops durst not even present a protest which they had privately prepared, and the assembly Recess and itself was bullied into an absolute submission to the Ordinance royal will.
Later additions to the statute were devised to terrorize the laborer, by adding stripes and branding to his punishment, if he still remained recalcitrant or absconded.
Romagna had continued a prey to anarchy ever since 1831; the government organized armed bands called the Centurioni (descended from the earlier Sanfedisti), to terrorize the Liberals, while the secret societies continued their propaganda by deeds.