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terror
/ˈtɛɹɚ/
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What does terror mean?
noun
- 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.
More meanings (5)
noun
- Terrorism.
- A night terror.
adjective
- (slang) A strict teacher who fails most of the students.
proper noun
- The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
- Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɛɹɚ/
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He gave a cry of terror, sprang sideways, and rushed on before I could gather my wits sufficiently to speak to him.
It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror.
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She had struck with the entire force of her heart’s vibration, communicating, by some subtile magnetism, her own terror to the summons.
But there was no sign of reawakening courage in his followers, rather, indeed, of growing terror at the irreverence of his words.
Yes, he would be good, and the hideous thing that he had hidden away would no longer be a terror to him.