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terrifies

vb. (en-third-person singular of: terrify)

Usage examples of "terrifies".

And no matter how it terrifies us, there's no other way for us to be now.

What I fear is that he may be cracking up, and that terrifies me because Stern has always been hope to me.

I guess I don't even like to imagine such a Godforsaken place because it terrifies me and that's the truth, David.

Before you went to the front as a young man and put a spyglass to your eye and a bullet shattered the spyglass and shattered your face, shattering everything in sight, all that was and all that would be, shattering every dream you ever had and leaving you with a face that terrifies children and terrifies just about everybody, if the truth be known.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.

But sometimes when I'm sitting down there watching him, the chance he might die terrifies me.

But sometimes when I’m sitting down there watching him, the chance he might die terrifies me.