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Definition: Terrified |
TerrifiedAdjective1. Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "terrified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: TerrifiedSynonyms: frightened (adj), panicked (adj), panicky (adj), panic-stricken (adj), panic-struck (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Terrified |
| English words defined with "terrified": frightened ♦ panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, panic-struck ♦ scamper, scurry, scuttle, skitter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "terrified": Sheb-seze. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "terrified": terrify. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Terrified mortified petrified stupefied by you. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I'm terrified. (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Any break from this routine leaves him terrified. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Terrified. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | Turnaround, Every now and then I get a little bit terrified but then I see the look in your eyes (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Terrified (1962) Computing for the Terrified (1993) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | After winning most of the chips in a "Peace Commission Game" with the Spanish Commission, Uncle Sam points a miniature battleship at a terrified Spain. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Arachnophobia 1" by Kd Kelly Commentary: "I am terrified of spiders, however my love of taking pictures seems to override my fear - it saved this spider's life. ." | "Ophthalmological Equipment 1" by Matt Williams Commentary: "I terrified my optician by whipping my camera out and snapping his equipment." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Terrified scream. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | The door had swung open, and in another moment the Monster had got out, and was trampling down the terrified, shrieking spectators |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Cosette stood still, terrified. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Men of property were terrified for their property |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I now observed myself to be less terrified than I had been in the morning |
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Human Rights | Cote d'Ivoire | These abuses previously were widespread particularly during the military mutiny of July 2000. Mutineers robbed, looted, destroyed property, and terrified the citizenry. (references) |
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| "Terrified" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 51.89% of the time. "Terrified" is used about 739 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 51.89% | 384 | 14,347 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.43% | 166 | 24,220 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.76% | 161 | 24,661 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.38% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Noun (common) | 0.54% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 739 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "terrified": be terrified ♦ be terrified of. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "terrified": terrified-looking. | |
Ending with "terrified": half-terrified. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
terrified | 9 |
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| Language | Translations for "terrified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مذعور (aghast, frightened, horrified, panic stricken), مروع (alarmed, appalling, awful, dreadful, frightened, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, horrible, horrific, horrified, horrifying, macabre, panic stricken, scared, shocked, shocking, startled, startling, terrifying, terror stricken, terrorized). (various references) | |
Chinese | 虩 , 猲 (frightened, short-snout dog), 怖 (afraid, frightened, terror), 慴 , 害怕 (Afraid, terrify, terrifying). (various references) | |
Finnish | kauhistua (be stricken with terror, be terrified). (various references) | |
German | erschrocken (frightened, scared, startled), erschreckte (appaled, frightened, horrified). (various references) | |
Greek | τρομοκρατημένοσ (terror stricken). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מפוחד (frightened). (various references) | |
Italian | spaventato (afraid, appals, fearful, frightens). (various references) | |
Korean | 놀래는. (various references) | |
Manx | agglit (ass) (appalled, frightened, startled), agglit (appalled, frightened, startled). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | errifiedtay.(various references) | |
Romanian | înspãimântat (afeard, aghast, frightened, scared), îngrozit (aghast, frightened, horrified). (various references) | |
Russian | ужасать испуганный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prestravljen (aghast). (various references) | |
Spanish | terrorizado, aterrorizado (aghast). (various references) | |
Swedish | förskräckt (aghast, alarmed). (various references) | |
Turkish | korkmuş (afraid, awestruck, frightened, ill with fear, scared, windy), dehşete kapılmış (awestruck, horrified, horror-stricken, horror-struck, terror stricken, terror-haunted, terror-struck), dehşete düşmüş (consternated, frightened, funky, horrified, horror-stricken, horror-struck), çok korkmuş (aghast). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | exanimis, exterritus, pavido, pavidos, pavidum, pavidus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | anforht. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 6 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou gar hdei ti lalhsh hsan gar ekfoboi |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et facta est nubes obumbrans eos et venit vox de nube dicens hic est Filius meus carissimus audite illum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice he nyste hwæt he cwæð. hewæs afered mid eige. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And ther was maad a cloude overschadewynge hem; and a vois cam of the cloude, and seide, This is my moost derworth sone, here ye hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And yet he wist not what he sayde: for they were afrayde. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For he knew not what to say: for they were greatly terrified. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 6 |
| Cebuano | Kay siya wala man ugod mahibalo kon unsay isulti, kay nangalisang man sila sa hilabihan. |
| Chinese | 彼 得 不 知 道 說 甚 麼 纔 好 ． 因 為 他 們 甚 是 懼 怕 。 |
| Croatian | Doista nije znao što da kaže jer bijahu prestrašeni. |
| Danish | Thi han vidste ikke, hvad han skulde sige; thi de vare blevne helt forfærdede. |
| Dutch | Want hij wist niet, wat hij zeide; want zij waren zeer bevreesd. |
| Finnish | Sillä hän ei tiennyt, mitä sanoa, koska he olivat peljästyksissään. |
| French | Car il ne savait que dire, l`effroi les ayant saisis. |
| Gaelic | Oir cha robh fios aige ciod a bha e ag radh; chionn `s gun robh iad fo fhiamh ro-mhor. |
| German | Er wußte aber nicht, was er redete; denn sie waren bestürzt. |
| Haitian Creole | Li pa t' konnen sa pou l' te di tèlman yo te pè. |
| Hungarian | De nem tudja vala mit beszél, mivelhogy megrémülének. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sebenarnya Petrus tidak tahu apa yang ia harus katakan, sebab ia dengan kedua temannya sedang ketakutan sekali. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena tiada diketahuinya apa yang hendak dikatakannya, sebab mereka itu terlalu sangat takut. |
| Italian | Non sapeva infatti che cosa dire, poiché erano stati presi dallo spavento. |
| Korean | 이 는 저 희 가 심 히 무 서 워 하 므 로 저 가 무 슨 말 을 할 는 지 알 지 못 함 이 더 라 |
| Maori | Kahore hoki ia i matau ki tana e korero ai; i wehi hoki ratou. |
| Norwegian | Han visste ikke hvad han skulde si; for de blev meget forferdet. |
| Portuguese | Pois não sabia o que havia de dizer, porque ficaram atemorizados. |
| Rumanian | Cqci nu wtia ce sq zicq, atkt de mare spaimq ki apucase. |
| Shuar | Jesusa unuiniamuri sapijmainiak, Pítiur wariniak titi nekaachmiayi. Nékachu asa nuna Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Pues él no sabía qué decir, porque tuvieron miedo. |
| Swahili | Yeye na wenzake waliogopa hata hakujua la kusema. |
| Swedish | Han visste nämligen icke vad han skulle säga; så stor var deras förskräckelse. |
| Uma | Kakono-na, uma-hawo na'incai Petrus napa to na'uli' toe, apa' nto'u toe bula-ra me'eka' lia. |
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Misspellings | |
"Terrified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terrife, terrifier. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "terrified" (pronounced te"rufī'd) |
| 6 | -e" r u f ī' d | clarified, unverified, verified. |
| 5 | -r u f ī' d | electrified, gentrified, glorified, horrified, petrified, purified. |
| 4 | -u f ī' d | acidified, amplified, calcified, certified, classified, codified, crucified, decertified, Declassified, dignified, justified, liquefied, magnified, disqualified, diversified, exemplified, falsified, fortified, gratified, identified, indemnified, intensified, misidentified, modified, mollified, mortified, mummified, mystified, notified, nullified, ossified, overqualified, oversimplified, pacified, personified, qualified, quantified, ratified, reclassified, rectified, reunified, signified, simplified, solidified, specified, stratified, testified, typified, unclassified, undignified, unidentified, unified, unjustified, unqualified, unspecified. |
| 3 | -f ī' d | dissatisfied, satisfied, sulfide, unsatisfied. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-i-i-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: driftier. | |
-2 letters: deifier, dirtier, drifter, edifier, ferried, ferrite, fierier, refired, refried, reified, reifier, retired, retried, tireder. | |
-3 letters: defier, defter, dieter, feirie, ferret, reedit, refire, retied, retire, rifted, tidier, tiered, trifid. | |
-4 letters: defer, deter, direr, drier, drift, eider, erred, feted, fetid, fired, firer, freed, freer, frere, fried, frier, refed, refer, refit, retie, rider, rifer, teiid. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-i-i-r-r-t" | |
+2 letters: denitrifier, recertified, refortified. | |
+3 letters: airfreighted, denitrifiers, precertified. | |
+4 letters: fingerprinted. | |
+5 letters: overfertilized. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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