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terror
UK /ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/ US /ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/
noun 5name 2adj 1
Definitions
noun
1
Intense dread, fright, or fear.
The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
"How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
2
The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
3
Something or someone that causes such fear.
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
The terrors of the storm
4
Terrorism.
a terror attack
the War on Terror
5
A night terror.
adj
1
A strict teacher who fails most of the students.
I have a terror math teacher.
name
1
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
2
Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
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