terror
Plural: terrors
Noun
- Intense, overwhelming fear or dread.
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- a person who inspires fear or dread
- "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
- a very troublesome child
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
- "he used terror to make them confess"
- Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- Something or someone that causes such fear.
- Terrorism.
- A night terror.
Adj
- A strict teacher who fails most of the students.
Examples
- a terror attack
- I have a terror math teacher.
- The sight of an opponent drawing all four ’S’ tiles filled him with terror.
- the War on Terror
Origin / Etymology
From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror m (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).
Synonyms
affright, brat, holy terror, little terror, panic, scourge, threat, afraidness, fear, horror, terror
Scrabble Score: 6
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