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terror-stricken

adj. struck or filled with terror [syn: terror-struck]

Usage examples of "terror-stricken".

Gabriel called off the terror-stricken crew from the further hunting of the whale.

The terror-stricken Indian, who certainly knew a tiger when he smelled one, deprived Dobbs and Moulton of the last bit of courage they had kept so far.

Most of them are just paralysed: some of them are plainly terror-stricken and weeping.

Then he reached out, took the terror-stricken Minztan's wrists in his mouth, waited a long malicious second before bearing down with shearing force that could have severed the thighbone of a bull plains bison.

He was terror-stricken when I tried to make him step out into space, as he thought, but when I stepped to the deck of the Jhama ahead of him and he saw me apparently floating there in the air, he took a little heart and I finally succeeded in getting him aboard.