0 to make very frightened by using or threatening violence -- terrorisere
Much depended on one's ability to impress or terrorize the target.
He may choose between nonserious harming and terrorizing on these grounds.
If the victims act shamefully, then they may wish they had been harmed instead of terrorized in this way.
Harming and terrorizing are also a goal of action but are not sufficient on their own.
This contrasts with a painful means of doing what is in their self-interest (as when we terrorize someone to get him to escape a flood).
He also intends death, but not necessarily to terrorize others.
A social drama that enhances the power of one group may at the same time disempower others; while it gratifies some, it terrorizes others.
The destiny of reason is to beckon faith, not terrorize it.