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terrify

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Synonyms for terrorize

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Synonyms for terrorize

coerce by violence or with threats

fill with terror

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"Planting hoax bombs with the aim of terrorizing people and subverting public order are punishable under the penal code and the law on protecting society from terrorism", said Legal Affairs Director.
The source reiterated the State of Qatar's firm positions denouncing violence in all its forms and manifestations, and the ensuing fall of victims, property destruction and terrorizing of people.
An official source also stated that after the Homs-Hama-Aleppo international highway was cut off in the area next to the town of Talbisa by armed criminal groups that were terrorizing innocent civilians, a military unity was mobilized to the area to put an end to the armed groups' crime spree and prevent them from cutting off the highway again.
Gundrun comes back to the Jarlshold with Ragnar, the lone survivor of a war band sent to defeat the Snow-Walkers terrorizing the northlands.
military saying this was part of a "precision strike" on "a building frequently used by terrorists.") I believe that the American people's natural compassion would come to the fore if they truly understood that we are terrorizing other people by our "war on terror."
Chronicling the efforts of a valiant few to sabotage the Nazi war machine, the ruthless terrorizing and murder of an SS Brigadier General assigned to root out and destroy the uprising, and one man's desperate mission that could cost him everything he loves, Streets Of Warsaw is a gripping saga that tells of paying the ultimate price.
Years later Thebes is terrorized by a vile plague and King Oedipus vows to rid the city of the terrorizing plague.
The former is the small-scale violence engaged in by individuals and small groups who have limited capability of terrorizing as compared to states.
Belfast--A bomb exploded on Wednesday, September 5, near Holy Cross primary school in Ardoyne, Belfast, Northern Ireland, wounding four policemen and terrorizing Catholic schoolgirls.
The court found that the detective had probable cause to search the jail cell for evidence that the inmate had committed the crime of terrorizing because his cell mate had informed potential victims and the detective about the inmate's possible retaliatory plans.
However, only a year after terrorizing the public with a skin-scalding doomsday scenario, a NASA report now says record low levels of ozone in late 1992 and early 1993 were more than likely caused by gases from the 1991 eruption of a volcano, Mount Pinatubo, in the Philippines!