Word Finder - horror

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An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

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Something horrible; that which excites horror.

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I saw many horrors during the war.

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Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

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A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

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An individual work in this genre.

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A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

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The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!

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An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.

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(plural) Delirium tremens.

It looks like something out of a horror movie.

With a deep breath, she opened the door, uncertain what horror she'd face next.

She jumped up and gasped in horror as it slid forward.

A look of horror crossed her face, and his anger boiled.

Elizabeth watched in horror as his lower lip blistered.

He was frozen in disbelief that bordered on horror then suddenly swept her up into his arms.

Deidre watched in growing horror as his teeth turned from normal to sharpened, and two long canines half the size of her index finger lengthened from his gum.

And cries of horror were heard in the crowd.

And the horror that had seized her when she touched him and convinced herself that that was not he, but something mysterious and horrible, seized her again.

Carmen stared at him in horror, remembering the two shots she heard.

She stared in horror and launched forward.

To her horror, her voice ended in a sob.

Horror descended upon her as she realized the depth of Claire's betrayal.

A friend of mine who writes horror comics agreed.

He could imagine her horror when she discovered what he planned.

Nothing hurts more than having the person you love call you terrible things and look at you with horror in their eyes.

The people regarded these events with horror.

Try not to listen to these horror stories.

She watched as the twisted battle began and progressed, unable to turn away despite her horror.

When he donned the wolf's head, she slapped her hands to the sides of her face in mock horror.

But his content speedily changed to horror.

On the contrary, as a thousand passages in the earlier apologists attest, they viewed the pagan mysteries with horror and detestation.

Thyestes fled in horror.

She cheered the wife of her English secretary, now under arrest, with promises to answer for her husband to all accusations brought against him, took her new-born child from the mother's arms, and in default of clergy baptized it, to Paulet's Puritanic horror, with her own hands by her own name.

But for rendering the gloomy horror of the subjects in which he most delights - detail on detail being accumulated till the result is overwhelming - Zola has no superior.

A few days later, according to Garnet, the Jesuit, Oswald Tesemond, known as Greenway, informed him of the whole plot " by way of confession," when, as he declares, he expressed horror at the design and urged Green way to do his utmost to prevent its execution.

The horror and grief excited by this tragedy were boundless, and the president was honoured with a splendid funeral in the Pantheon, Paris.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for I think things weakly said might as well not be said at all, for they are, as it were, deflowered and spoiled - but I profess the greatest horror for uselessness (however brilliant) and filling up. These things can only weaken a picture by distracting the attention toward secondary things."

The horror caused in England by the trial and execution of Louis XVI.

Yes, it was the same flesh, the same chair a canon, the sight of which had even then filled him with horror, as by a presentiment.

The two brothers stared at each other, and she choked back a sob, joy and horror flying through her.

This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

During the latter period of his term of office he was on a very unsatisfactory footing with the young king George III., who gradually came to feel a kind of horror of the interminable persistency of his conversation, and whom he endeavoured to make use of as the mere puppet of the ministry.

Only occasionally is light let in to mitigate the horror of the gloom, and then not so much through a window as through a hole.

Peter"; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonour; but even these exceptional instances show that Rome was not entirely spared those scenes of horror which usually accompany the storming of a besieged city.

He denounced the massacres of September - their inception, their horror and the future to which they pointed - in language so vivid and powerful that it raised for a time the spirits of the Girondists, while on the other hand it aroused the fatal opposition of the Parisian leaders.

However atrocious its conception and its aims, it is impossible not to feel, together with horror for the deed, some pity and admiration for the guilty persons who took part in it.

Deidre needed to see Darkyn's mate herself, to face what horror she'd committed before she was able to understand the consequences of her actions.

She'd expected horror or disbelief from him during the hour straight that she poured her heart out to him.

Stricken with horror, he threw himself against the wall, covering his mouth as his four canine teeth grew into sharp fangs.

Seeing the horror in the young vampire's eyes, his tone softened and he backed up.

To start off with, the film can't decide whether to be a comedy or an inept horror film.

Viewers expecting campy shenanigans on a par with the Santo movies will be surprised to find a well-made, atmospheric horror flick.

Each of them desired nothing more than to give himself up as a prisoner to escape from all this horror and misery; but on the one hand the force of this common attraction to Smolensk, their goal, drew each of them in the same direction; on the other hand an army corps could not surrender to a company, and though the French availed themselves of every convenient opportunity to detach themselves and to surrender on the slightest decent pretext, such pretexts did not always occur.

You take each step with caution, as, surrounded by deep night, you recall the words of Virgil "Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent."

Early in 1879 he excited much horror by executing a number of the members of the Burmese royal family, and relations became much strained.

Holding that chemistry had not attained the rank of a science - his lectures dealt with the "effects of heat and mixture" - he had an almost morbid horror of hasty generalization or of anything that had the pretensions of a fully fledged system.

Some of the eagles feathers, blown to his side, suggest the death of the bird; at his feet lies the corpse of the little boy, and the horror, grief and anger that such a tragedy would inspire are depicted with striking realism in the farmers face.

With all the Puritan eagerness to push a clear, uncompromising, Scripture-based distinction of right and wrong into the affairs of every-day life, he has a thoroughly English horror of casuistry, and his clumsy canons consequently make wild work with the infinite intricacies of human nature.

Her letter to the emperor, pervaded with he religious and almost mystic sentiments which predominate in the queen's mind, particularly since the death of Prince Albert, seems to have made a deep impression on the sovereign who, amid the struggles of politics, had never completely repudiated the philanthropic theories of his youth, and who, on the battlefield of Solferino, covered with the dead and wounded, was seized with an unspeakable horror of war."Moreover, Disraeli's two premierships (1868, 1874-80) did a good deal to give new encouragement to a right idea of the constitutional function of the crown.