terrorise

From terror + -ise.

terrorise (third-person singular simple present terrorises, present participle terrorising, simple past and past participle terrorised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize.
   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head…

   • 2018 January 18, Anne Billson, “'Hagsploitation': horror's obsession with older women returns”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 8 March 2021:

     Crawford’s replacement in Sweet Charlotte was 48-year-old Olivia de Havilland, who had already been terrorised by home invaders in the surprisingly vicious Lady in a Cage (1964), though her career low point was probably being stung to death by killer bees in The Swarm (1978) as disaster movies replaced hagsploitation as the last refuge of the fading Hollywood star. […] Sixty-three-year-old Tallulah Bankhead joined the British studio’s monstrous regiment as the religious fanatic who terrorises her dead son’s girlfriend in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965).

• roisterer

• Homophones: terrorisent, terrorises

terrorise

1. inflection of terroriser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative