strike fear

• strike terror

strike fear (third-person singular simple present strikes fear, present participle striking fear, simple past struck fear, past participle struck fear or (somewhat archaic) stricken fear)

1. To terrify; to petrify [with into ‘someone’].

• “strike fear into the hearts of”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “strike fear/terror into someone”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “strike terror/fear into somebody’s heart” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “strike fear into”, in Collins English Dictionary.