terrifying

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1. Frightening or intimidating.

   terrifying film

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   terrifying creature

   terrifying dream

   terrifying ride

   terrifying story

   Synonyms: affreux, alarming, spine-tingling, appalling, awful, eldritch, buggish, butt-clenching

2. Of a formidable nature; terrific.

   Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still.

   2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2023

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of terrify