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How to pronounce “terrify”
Hear “terrify” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for terrify
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of terrify with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)
teacher because small children terrify
- Definition summary
- To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce terrify
Why Work Won’t Love You Back (and That’s OK) (w/ Sarah Jaffe)

teacher because small children terrify
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “terrify”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
- To menace or intimidate.
- (obsolete) To make terrible.
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