terrorize

英 [ˈterəraɪz]

美 [ˈterəraɪz]

v.  恐吓; 恫吓; 威胁

过去分词：terrorized　过去式：terrorized　现在分词：terrorizing　第三人称单数：terrorizes　

Collins.1 / BNC.22982 / COCA.11381

牛津词典

verb

• 恐吓；恫吓；威胁
  to frighten and threaten people so that they will not oppose sth or will do as they are told
  1. drug dealers terrorizing the neighbourhood
     使附近地区人心惶惶的毒品贩子
  2. People were terrorized into leaving their homes.
     人们在恫吓之下离开家园。

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 terrorise


• VERB 使惊恐;恐吓;威胁
  If someoneterrorizesyou, they keep you in a state of fear by making it seem likely that they will attack you.
  1. Bands of gunmen have hijacked food shipments and terrorized relief workers.
     几伙持枪歹徒劫持了运输的食品，还恐吓了救援人员。
  2. ...pensioners terrorised by anonymous telephone calls.
     受到匿名电话恐吓的领取养老金的人

英英释义

verb

• fill with terror
  Synonym:terrifyterrorise
• coerce by violence or with threats
  Synonym:terrorise

双语例句

• A thrush overhears him telling the news of the weakness to the dwarves and leaves to inform Bard at Lake-town, which is a good thing because the dragon has left the mountain to terrorize the townspeople.
  有人偷听到了他告诉矮人龙的弱点的消息，并去告知了长湖镇的巴尔德，这是好事，因为史矛革随后离开了山，袭击了镇民。
• And having freed them, they did n't want to have anything to do with them, except to use them to terrorize southerners.
  既然解放了黑人，他们又不愿和黑人打交道，只一味利用他们来恐吓南方人。
• And they terrorize us, she said.
  他们还恐吓我们，她说。
• Taken to an extreme, this strategy can intimidate and terrorize.
  更极端的是，这种策略甚至会让人身险恐惧。
• They wanted to terrorize us, but, as Americans, we refuse to live in fear.
  他们企图危险我们，但是，作为美国人，我们没有生活在恐惧中。
• Control of gang activity is a very serious police responsibility because youth gangs can terrorize a neighborhood.
  控制流氓集团的行动已成为警察的重任，因为这种集团能使一个地段的居民陷入恐怖之中。
• As the karma for warfare is cleared in full throughout the human species, the human need to war or terrorize another will cease.
  当人类物种当中的战争业力被完全清理掉时，人类对于战争或者说恐吓别人的需要，就将停止。
• For the sake of their young, they will blacken the skies, and terrorize rainforest floras.
  为了他们的年轻一代，他们就将天空染黑，恐吓热带雨林。
• How had this monster been allowed to terrorize the poor girl unchallenged? he wondered.
  怎么会让这个恶魔欺凌那个可怜的姑娘如此之久，而没受到制止和制裁呢？
• As we arrived at his apartment in Malibu, Huang casually mentioned that his mother had on more than one occasion turned the wheel of her car sharply into oncoming traffic to terrorize her children into compliance.
  我们到了他在马里布的公寓以后，黄很随意地提起，他母亲好几次把车突然转向马路对面的车流以吓唬孩子们就范。