terrorization
- noun
- /ˌtɛrəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
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terrorización
- Fail to expose how teacher harassment and terrorization maintain a system of deeply hidden corruption.
Examples
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The terrorization of the local community through threats and intimidation created a climate of fear.
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After almost 2 years of investigations, the tribunal concluded, in effect, that quantity had turned into quality after calculating that in 1992, 20,000 Muslim women and girls were raped by Serbs as a systematic strategy of terrorization.
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The state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.
Blog text (22) -
The kind of excessive egotism which hampers the development of human values and leads to misjudgment and terrorization of others well deserves the title 'King of human faults.'
Blog text (2) -
These spilled into the new century with the assault, invasion, occupation, terrorization, and culture-cide of a civilization having roots ten millennia in the making by a transitory pretension to culture still wet behind the ears.
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Her constant bullying in school caused the terrorization of several students who felt unsafe.
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The documentary highlighted the terrorization faced by activists who oppose oppressive regimes.
Synonyms
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Violent acts that people do illegally to frighten others for political or religious reasons
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Making people very afraid to control them, often by a government
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Making someone scared by threats or pressure to stop them
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A violent act against ordinary people to frighten others for political, religious or other beliefs
Antonyms
How Terrifying
Surface Forms
Morphology
terrorization = terrorize (transparent) = terr + or + ize + ation
The noun is formed regularly from the verb 'terrorize' by adding '-ation', and the meaning is directly recoverable from the base.
Etymology
The word terrorization comes from terror, which means 'great fear', plus the endings -ize ('to make') and -ation ('the act of'). So, terrorization is the act of making people feel intense fear on purpose, often by threats or violence.