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The giant retailer is realizing its dream of getting into the banking business, which should terrify populists of all stripes.

Epidurals terrify me, which is why I decided on a natural birth.

That's what should terrify neoconservatives -- not the bogus anti-Israel charges.

The Daily Beast rounds up a list of bizarre conditions that rarely strike,  but still manage to terrify.

The operation was apparently intended to terrify the residents into leaving voluntarily, but instead it steeled their resolve.

You can terrify this woman with the thunders of the law if she persists in kidnapping children that don't belong to her.

Meantime the trader would use his precious possession, the letter written by Helen Ervin, to terrify the girl.

What is it that gives evil governments their influence, but their power to terrify, and their wealth and honours to seduce?

They "supped full of horrors," and listened greedily to tales of death, which served to weaken and terrify.

They terrify the weak minded by frightful ideas which they hold out to them of the Deity.

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On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to terrify, such as: alarm, awe, dismay, frighten, horrify, and intimidate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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