词汇 | terrify |
释义 | terrify verb[ T ] uk /ˈter.ə.faɪ/ us /ˈter.ə.faɪ/ B2 to frighten someone very much: 使害怕,使恐惧 The idea of parachuting out of a plane terrifies me.一想到从飞机上跳伞,我就害怕。 Compare frighten scareverb terrorize Our maths teacher terrified all the children. I'm terrified by spiders. The thought of being stuck underground terrified him. Frightening and scaring chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight frighten/scare someone out of their witsidiom ghoulish ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of someoneidiom scare/frighten the life out of someoneidiom scaremongering shiver witless terrify | American Dictionaryterrify verb[ T ] us/ˈter·əˌfɑɪ/ to frighten someone severely: His looks are enough to terrify anyone. terrifiedadjectiveus/ˈter·əˌfɑɪd/ She’s always been terrified of spiders. terrifyingadjectiveus/ˈter·əˌfɑɪ·ɪŋ/ a terrifying experience Examples of terrifyterrify Cloning is both attractive and terrifying if we assume that personhood is an isolated and genetically defined quality dictated by phenotype alone. This is a terrific book, as in terrifying and awe-inspiring. In this state, one's subjective consciousness is focused on one internally generated, usually terrifying, image or belief. From caves in this rock, terrifying forces can emerge - powerful enough to cause appalling destruction. The intense stimulation and threat attendant to partner violence is highly arousing and even terrifying for the child witness. Nonetheless, the lake route had perils of its own, as storms could appear with terrifying abruptness in certain seasons. And every moment he felt that despite all his efforts he was drawing nearer and nearer to what terrified him. Now it sounded grotesque, terrifying, this violation, this battering of music. That people function so badly in our experiments, where self-interest is relatively minimal, is what is really terrifying. It is an experience both dizzying and terrifying; yet its intensity can be life-altering. Business had moved from being terrified about a possible socialist economic policy, to commending the performance of communists in the cabinet. A person who becomes ill presents terrifying symptoms that cause panic : jaundice, high fever, internal hemorrhage and vomiting of black blood. The bird is terrified and tries to fly away from the kite. The answer to the above question is that by and large the system was neither a personal disaster nor did it terrify the public. Such a desperate struggle to attain understanding raged within him that it was terrifying to look upon his face. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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