Timorous vs Terrorised - What's the difference?
timorous | terrorised |
fearful, afraid, timid
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(terrorise)
To inflict someone with terror; to terrify.
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To coerce (someone) by using threats or violence.
As an adjective timorous
is fearful, afraid, timid.As a verb terrorised is
past tense of terrorise.timorous
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Alternative forms
* timourous (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Wee sleekit, cowrin', tim'rou s beastie,
- Oh, what a panic's in thy breastie!
- He turned a long you are wrong gaze on Stephen of timorous dark pride at the soft impeachment with a glance also of entreaty for he seemed to glean in a kind of a way that it wasn't all exactly.
Synonyms
* (fearful) fearful, shy, timidAntonyms
* (fearful) daredevil, dauntless, recklessterrorised
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Verb
(head)terrorise
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Alternative forms
* terrorizeVerb
(terroris)- Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head…