If someone terrorizes you, they keep you in a state of fear by making it seem likely that they will attack you. The gunmen terrorized relief workers.

What does it mean to terrorize people?

When you terrorize someone, you act in a way that makes that person feel terrified, or full of fear. A bully might terrorize his younger victims by threatening to beat them up.

What does terrorizes mean?

transitive verb. 1 : to fill with terror or anxiety : scare. 2 : to coerce by threat or violence.