What's the difference between terrorise and terrorist?

Terrorise


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One day they hope to recreate a full-size, ocean-going replica Roskilde 6, and send it across the sea to awe rather than to terrorise the coasts of the British Isles.
  • (2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
  • (3) You’ve got some heavy-handed goon who thinks they can just come storming in and terrorise people who are trying to carry on their duties.
  • (4) Nick Collins is at Arsenal but has taken somehow talked himself inside the ground so he doesn't get terrorised by the Gooner youths.
  • (5) 5.41pm BST 38 min: Now it's Oar terrorising the Netherlands!
  • (6) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
  • (7) Agüero terrorised his opponents, scored four times, missed a penalty and, in the process, caught and overhauled his compatriot Carlos Tevez’s scoring record in City’s colours.
  • (8) "Israel wanted many deaths to terrorise us and to send a message that no future aid convoys should try to break the siege of Gaza," she told journalists this week.
  • (9) Its beneficial for them to keep terrorising and making life as painful as possible for people living in areas they don’t control.” The latest apparent attack happened after opposition fighters broke a siege on eastern Aleppo.
  • (10) The seeds were sown in March last year when the Seleka, a largely Muslim rebel group, seized Bangui in a coup, installed the country's first Muslim president, Michel Djotodia, and terrorised the majority Christian population, killing men, women and children .
  • (11) Their fate is to be terrorised by the wrong kind of bombs, the ones dropped by Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin.
  • (12) One reason for Rushdie's fury could be that an identity forged on terrorising a fiction writer, with its direct associations of violence and censorship, is not a fair one to hang on two million Britons.
  • (13) Here was the team that comes at opponents in a blur of red and terrorises them with their attacking prowess.
  • (14) Authorities reject the criticism and say the strike is an attempt by gang leaders to regain the ability to terrorise fellow prisoners, staff and communities throughout California .
  • (15) A mutiny led by war crimes suspect Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda has been slicing through the region with apparent ease, terrorising and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
  • (16) "They clearly want to terrorise me, and in doing so shut up the press so, and I don't want to be their hostage.
  • (17) Who is being terrorised and fear for their safety on a daily basis?
  • (18) "Death squads and civilian casualties and underarmed soldiers and strategic mishaps and the brutalisation of soldiers and the terrorising of civilians: the worst fears we had about that war just came flooding through, and I thought it was extraordinary."
  • (19) Thousands of civilians have emerged from weeks in prison following the protests with accounts of brutal torture aimed at extracting "confessions" and at terrorising a new generation of Burmese into acquiescing to military rule.
  • (20) Its aim is to terrorise its enemies, mobilise its supporters and polarise communities to make further violence more likely.

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.