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Chiefly Scot. fley, Archaic, affright; scare to death, Sl. scare stiff, Inf. scare or frighten out of one's wits or senses; stun, paralyze, petrify, freeze, strike dumb, put one's heart in one's mouth; appall, shock, horrify, curdle one's blood, make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, make one's flesh creep, send chills or shivers up one's spine,

territorial, adj. 1. geographical, topographic; regional, sectional, zonal.
2. local, localized, insular, provincial, parochial, topical.

territory, n. 1. area, region, zone; district, precinct, quarter; neighborhood, purlieu, vicinity, vicinage, Inf. neck of the woods, Sl. turf, Sl. home turf or ground.
2. state, county, canton, shire, department.
3. orbit, orb, ambit, sphere; field, pale, arena, realm, domain; bailiwick, jurisdiction.

terror, n. 1. fear, fright, Archaic, affright, horror; dread, awe, consternation, dismay, fear and trembling; panic.
2. Informal, hellion, Inf. holy terror, Inf. spitfire; hoodlum, Sl. hood, tough, Inf. ugly customer, Inf. plugugly; devil, demon, brute, fiend; beast, monster, mad dog.

terrorism, n. 1. piracy, brigandage, banditry; buccaneering, freebooting, privateerng, filibustering.
2. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air or sky piracy; abduction, kidnapping, Sl. snatch, capturing, holding hostage; impressment, conscription, man-stealing.
3. incendiarism, arson, fire-bombing, bomb planting.
4. intimidation, bullying, browbeating, threatening; tyranny, despotism; coercion, pressure, armtwisting, extortion, blackmail.

terrorist, n. 1. desperado, gunman, gangster, criminal, mafioso, (in Paris) apache; thug, tough, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, roughneck, Inf. baddy, Australian Sl. larrikin, Brit. Hist. Mohock.
2. highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, Sp. bandolero, outlaw, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian, bushranger, brigand; picaroon, rogue, (in India and Burma) dacoit.
3. revolutionary, insurgent, rebel, subversive; nihilist, anarchist, destroyer, radical, Derog. Bolshevik; incendiary, arsonist.
4. abductor, kidnapper; hijacker, skyjacker, sky or air priate; assassin, bravo, murderer.
5. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish highlands) cateran; pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, depredator, ransacker, sacker, looter, rifler, forager, raider.
6. malefactor, miscreant, villain, hellhound, fiend, knave, blackguard; lawbreaker, felon, cutthroat, murderer, robber, thief.
7. bully, browbeater, hector, intimidator, Sl. bulldozer, Inf. terror; coercer, dictator, despot, tyrant.

terrorize, v. 1. terrify. See - terrify.
2. dominate, rule with an iron hand or fist, oppress, beat down, tread or trample underfoot; intimidate, cow, overawe, put in bodily fear; menace, threaten; bully, dragoon, coerce, Inf. strong-arm, Inf. bulldoze, ride roughshod over; daunt, unman, unnerve,

terse, adj. laconic, elliptical, short-winded, brevilo-quent, Rare, pauciloquent, sparing of words; concise, succinct, brief, to the point, short and sweet; compact, concentrated, close, neat, lean, compendious, packed, Inf. meaty; pithy, sententious, epigrammatic, crisp, precise, exact, gnomic; straightforward, direct, emphatic, trenchant, mordant, mordacious; curt, short, clipped, bluff, brusque, blunt.