terror
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
terror
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:fear
- 1794, William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams
- The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The terrors of the storm
- 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- (uncountable) terrorism
- a terror attack; the War on Terror
- French: terreur, effroi
- German: Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht
- Portuguese: terror
- Russian: у́жас
- Spanish: terror
- French: terrorisme
- Russian: тера́кт
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