From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
terrorize
v 1: coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorise]
2: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify,
terrorise]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Terrorize \Ter"ror*ize\, v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.]
To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.
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Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and
terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. --J. A.
Symonds.
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