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terror
[ ter-er ]
noun
- intense, sharp, overmastering fear:
to be frantic with terror.
Synonyms: consternation, dismay, alarm
Antonyms: calm
- an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror:
to be a terror to evildoers.
- any period of frightful violence or bloodshed likened to the Reign of Terror in France.
- violence or threats of violence used for intimidation or coercion; terrorism.
- Informal. a person or thing that is especially annoying or unpleasant.
terror
/ ˈtɛrə /
noun
- great fear, panic, or dread
- a person or thing that inspires great dread
- informal.a troublesome person or thing, esp a child
- terrorism
Derived Forms
- ˈterrorful, adjective
- ˈterrorless, adjective
Other Words From
- terror·ful adjective
- terror·less adjective
- counter·terror noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of terror1
Idioms and Phrases
see holy terror .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
When asked if the terror plot had an impact on the company’s recent spate of surprising policy changes, Facebook did not provide a direct response.
On the other hand, the levels of fear are increasing due to the social effects and the messages of terror that this type of violence instills in the entire community.
I tried to determine the relationship between politicians using hate speech and the number of domestic terror attacks the country experienced the following year.
It’s been almost three months since an independent group of United Nations experts called on the US government to conduct an independent investigation into racial terror.
Deep cultural memory entangles wolves and wilderness in all their terror and majesty.
And that is an awful lot less bloody than what happened during the Reign of Terror.
The Sputnik shapes seem like a nod to Cold War surveillance morphing into Age of Terror surveillance.
Yet his liberal voice was too often silenced on War on Terror issues.
“They should go and join [the] Anti-Terror Operation,” she said.
Oddly enough, it was initially conceived as a weapon for the Global War on Terror.
Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.
Terror and fascination caught him; he turned away lest she should reach his secret and communicate her own.
But France had had enough of the Terror, and knew that she could evolve her safety by other means than that of the guillotine.
Before very long the prisoners knew that, in spite of the Terror, some powerful hand was extended over them.
Terror has been and always will be the most certain means of corrupting and enslaving the mind of man.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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