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Definition of terrify : 1. To alarm or shock with fear; to frighten.
2. To make terrible.

Synonyms:

scare the daylights out of, scarify, affright, browbeat, fear, appal, fright, dismay, cow, study at frighten, daunt, terrorise, terrorize, startle

frighten, alarm, intimidate, haunt, petrify, panic, threaten, rattle, disturb, harrow, scare, unnerve, agitate, horrify, set on edge

Usage examples:

• It was thus that the Carthaginian peasants avenged themselves when they captured a wild beast; they hoped to terrify the others by such an example. - "Salammbo", Gustave Flaubert.
• Doubtless superstition would often terrify the innocent person, in the attempt of swallowing a consecrated morsel. - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli.
• And he said, These are the horns which scattered Judah, so that none lifted up his head; but these are come to terrify them, to strike down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it. - "The Makers and Teachers of Judaism", Charles Foster Kent.