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

• 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。
• There is no law and order and motorcycle gangs terrorize the country.
  世间没有法律和秩序，只有飞车党横行霸道。
• If you want to terrorize, and think that it's your right to ban the free women from wearing the Burka.
  如果你们想要实施恐吓政策，认为你们有权禁止女性穿戴布卡的权利。
• They just regarded the alliance as an immanent to terrorize their enemies in the war and had done what as their own will to take advantage of each other.
  在战争中，德日两国仅将这一同盟视为威慑各自敌国的工具而已，双方抱着相互利用的态度而自行其是。
• 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。
• They terrorize villages, sleep with what women they please, eat off of others and do no work.
  这些人在村里为祸一方，到处搞女人，抢食物，就是不劳动。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Even as we come to learn how this happened and who's responsible, we may never understand what leads anyone to terrorize their fellow human beings.
  即便是我们在调查该案件如何发生以及谁是肇事者的时候，我们始终也无法理解是什么样的事情让一个人如此残忍的对待他的人类同胞。