terrify
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I could potentially rent out the two other rooms for around $1,000 each to generate extra income, but loans terrify me.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 24, 2026
The backrooms seem to exist in part to terrify entrants into redirecting their energies toward better life choices.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
He told Salon that equating drug traffickers with terrorist is meant to “stigmatize and terrify people.”
From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026
Mary McCarthy has been driving for almost 20 years, but has only driven on the motorway about ten times in her life because they terrify her.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
Now the land itself, the only one they knew and knew intimately, began to terrify them.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Vocabulary lists containing terrify
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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The House of Hades
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