terror
IPA: tˈɛrɝ
noun
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
- (uncountable) Terrorism.
- (pathology, countable) A night terror.
- (politics, history, usually with the) The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
- (politics, history, usually with the) Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.
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Examples of "terror" in Sentences
- He was in a terror of a ghost.
- The War on Terror is an afterthought.
- Malicious terrorism gripped the land.
- It was the Platonic form of terrorism.
- Terrorism is the technique of the weak.
- Isn't the pain and the terror the same
- Fomenting fear and terror was the point.
- The threat of terrorism hangs in the air.
- People are afraid of terrorism in the city.
- Assassination is one of the methods in the arsenal of terrorism.
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