terrorize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb coerce by violence or with threats
    terrorise.
  2. verb fill with terror; frighten greatly
    terrorise; terrify.

WordNet

Ter"ror*ize transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. F. terroriser.
Definitions
  1. To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.
    Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.

Webster 1913