terrible (adj) — sense 2

Formidable, powerful.

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Example
[…]and there was even a party of the younger men who pretended to admire him, calling him a "true sea-dog," and "real old salt," and such-like names, and saying there was the sort of man that made England terrible at sea.
Order number
2
Part of speech
adjective

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