What is "terrorise"

Usage examples of "terrorise".

Zere our airships will gazzer and repair, and thence they will fly to and fro ofer ze United States, terrorising cities, dominating Washington, levying what is necessary, until ze terms we dictate are accepted.

A heterogeneous collection of navigable balloons of all sizes and types gathered over the Bernese Oberland, crushed and burnt the twenty-five Swiss air-ships that unexpectedly resisted this concentration in the battle of the Alps, and then, leaving the Alpine glaciers and valleys strewn with strange wreckage, divided into two fleets and set itself to terrorise Berlin and destroy the Franconian Park, seeking to do this before the second air-fleet could be inflated.

Should she be permitted to terrorise pedestrians in a smart little Ford Fiesta?

Or perhaps even to issue further threats, to harass and terrorise her even further It would have served him right if she had told the police about him, she reflected bitterly.

No debris of any of the missing ships had ever been found, even at the Moon Base of the notorious Ebevyr Pirates who had terrorised commercial shipping for three decades over a hundred years before.

Unfortunately the same ones who picked on them were also the ones who terrorised the elaihim, the tall, pale hyper-intelligent race that now shunned the habitations of men because they had been so persecuted over the centuries.

He began to see the creature not as a monster terrorising him, but as his tool, his public persona almost.

He practised upon her the faculties which he would have liked to use in terrorising a people.

Jackie Crawford was somewhere in this crowd, somewhere shaking hands with people whom, a scant four years before, he might have been terrorising with a sawn-off shotgun.

Maybe the big buck was a rabbit from outside the Grounds, some wild beast come into the warren from beyond, to terrorise the locals and make itself boss, only to die in an encounter with a superior being it could have no real comprehension of.

Nobody seems to know who he is or what he does, except that he's a foreigner, and terrorises some of the whores around here.