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Terrify

TER'RIFY, verb transitive [Latin terror and facio, to make.]

To frighten; to alarm or shock with fear.

They were terrified and affrighted. Luke 24:37.

When ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified. Luke 21:9. Job 7:14.