Englishterrorize
verb
they were terrorized by their assailants during the hijacking incident:
strike terror in/into, fill with terror, scare, frighten, terrify, petrify;
persecute, victimize, torment, tyrannize;
intimidate, menace, threaten, oppress, bully, browbeat, cow;
British, informal put the frighteners on, make it/things hot for someone;
North American, informal mau-mau.
terrorize Oxford Dictionary of English