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terrifying

US // (ˈtɛrɪˌfaɪɪŋ) //

可怕的,恐怖的,吓人的,可怕的是

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing great fear or dread; extremely frightening

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Examples

  • Director Nia Costa, who co-wrote the script with Win Rosenfeld and Academy Award winner Jordan Peele, returns to the Chicago neighborhood where the terrifying urban legend began.

  • Peele’s next movie, “Us,” is a terrifying nightmare vision of the American Dream.

  • It would be great to call in a 747, dump 19,200 gallons of retardant on reality and make the terrifying facts fade away.

  • The terrifying truth is that even as businesses across the country reopen, we don’t yet fully know how to prevent workers and customers from getting sick.

  • The terrifying thing is the way it links partisan politics and authoritarianism.

  • Buzzfeed shows us a potentially terrifying glimpse of the future.

  • The sex workers I spoke with rightly call it “vile,” “gross,” “terrifying,” and “exploitative.”

  • Hollywood sure hopes so, because the idea that disgruntled insiders could do this is terrifying to Tinsel Town.

  • The Babadook is the shape of grief: all-enveloping, shape-shifting, black, here intensely, terrifying, then gone.

  • The music was, as he describes it, “harrowing, beautiful, terrifying.”

  • If Alfaretta had tried she couldn't have hit upon a more terrifying word to her hearer.

  • Who is to be Commander of the new corps I cannot say, but we have one or two terrifying suggestions from home.

  • Side by side with this terrifying discovery was the certain fact that his awkwardly built craft would gain little by maneuvering.

  • Gale described with all the terrifying details her adventure with the snake and the girls were all speechless with amazement.

  • That terrifying Mann Act would account for his caution much better than would the business deal of which Foster had hinted.