What's the difference between terrify and terrorist?

Terrify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make terrible.
  • (v. t.) To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a genuine fear, to be terrified of being labelled a racist.
  • (2) The woman who had lost her husband and son had another son, 20 years old, and she was terrified.
  • (3) "I find that terrifying frankly; safety comes from being in a team.
  • (4) In August, the capital came to a standstill as terrified workers were forced to stay home after gang leaders orchestrated a forced public transport boycott by killing a dozen bus drivers in response to a crackdown by authorities against organised crime.
  • (5) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
  • (6) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
  • (7) As he described, with something approaching relish, the horrifying effect of a desperate eurozone willing to destroy the British economy, our industry and our society, purely to protect itself, I was reminded of the epic Last Judgement by John Martin, now in the Tate, which depicts the terrifying chaos as the good are separated from the evil damned.
  • (8) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (9) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
  • (10) Chained and terrified, she made her choice and lied.
  • (11) I lived through terrifying moments during the steepest of my professional learning curves and was perpetually sleep-deprived.
  • (12) He says of the rumoured mood of fear among staff at Philly HQ: "I wasn't terrifying, but I wasn't someone to be tampered with.
  • (13) This is legitimately terrifying.” Several commentators compared Comey’s sudden sacking with the 1973 “Saturday night massacre” when President Richard Nixon dismissed Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor appointed to look into the Watergate affair.
  • (14) I’d have hated to hear that Russell had been dragged, terrified, to his death.
  • (15) A Peta statement added: "We are appalled by photos of a visibly terrified monkey crudely strapped into a restraint device in which he was allegedly launched into space by the Iranian Space Agency.
  • (16) So, to summarise, Shorten and his speechwriting team looked out into the mildly terrifying and endlessly fracturing political landscape of January 2017 and concluded that politics had to be personal.
  • (17) Meanwhile the Dublin government, terrified of the impact that a UK withdrawal could have on its own economy, has warned darkly of immigration and custom posts returning.
  • (18) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
  • (19) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
  • (20) It wasn't that the drinking was great, but I was so terrified of not drinking.

Terrorist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
  • (3) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
  • (4) The citizenship debate is tawdry, conflated and ultimately pointless | Richard Ackland Read more On Wednesday, the prime minister criticised lawyers for backing terrorists.
  • (5) To do so degrades the language of war and aids the terrorist enemy.
  • (6) Which brings us to the next fundamental question: Was it a terrorist attack?
  • (7) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
  • (8) Terrorist groups need to be tackled at root, interdicting flows of weapons and finance, exposing the shallowness of their claims, channelling their followers into democratic politics.
  • (9) In an interview with Channel 4 News he said they had to be careful not to act as a communications platform for terrorists.
  • (10) He regarded civilians who "harboured terrorists" as legitimate targets.
  • (11) The American paper claimed Mr Jameel's company was one of a number of organisations being monitored at the request of law enforcement agencies, to prevent funds being channelled to terrorist organisations, a claim that turned out to be untrue.
  • (12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
  • (13) We will together face the terrorist menace,” said Jean-Claude Juncker , president of the European commission, whose headquarters lie just a few hundred metres from the metro.
  • (14) [The] execution was ordered by the IS terrorists,” it says.
  • (15) The pair arrived back in the office shortly before 6pm, as reports that the incident was a terrorist attack began to gain traction.
  • (16) Obama said that amid the febrile focus on the shooter’s terrorist radicalization, the fact should not be forgotten that he had targeted a gay nightclub.
  • (17) There was already simmering anger over the deaths of civilians in US drone attacks aimed at alleged terrorists inside Pakistan and over an incident in February in which a CIA contractor, Raymond Davis, shot dead two men on the street in Lahore he said were trying to rob him.
  • (18) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
  • (19) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
  • (20) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.