Word Finder - horrors

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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.

The repression of the revolutionary movement of October 1934 then became a dress rehearsal for the horrors of the civil war.

The horrors from his mind fell away as she curled against her mate again.

With the Terminator 2 soundtrack, Brad Fiedel creates appropriately effective electronic sounds that more than adequately represent the technological and apocalyptic horrors that take place on screen.

In this version, vampires are graveyard horrors, corpse-like, with long claws and often bat-like ears.

Little Shop of Horrors is the name of two movies made over two decades apart, each of which has attained cult status in its own way.

That event was the climax of a long series of horrors.

Nothing could well exceed the horrors of Massena's retreat.

But three years later this imperious leader was checked by the heroic resistance of the " Maiden " fortress of Magdeburg; though two years later still she lost her reputation, and suffered unspeakable horrors at the hands of Tilly's lawless and unlicensed soldiery.

A siege and blockade, with confused fighting and alternate victory and defeat, and all the horrors of fire and slaughter, followed, till Dion made himself finally master of the mainland city.

Marcellus, therefore, struck his first blow at Leontini, which was quickly stormed; and the tale of the horrors of the sack was at once carried to Syracuse and roused; the anger of its population, who could not but sympathize with their near neighbours, Greeks like themselves.

In the opening lines of the second and third books we can mark the recoil of a humane and sensitive spirit from the horrors of the reign of terror which he witnessed in his youth, and from the anarchy and confusion which prevailed at Rome during his later years.

Savonarola's party was apparently annihilated by his death, but, when in 1529-1530 Florence was exposed to the horrors predicted by him, the most heroic defenders of his beloved if ungrateful city were Piagnoni who ruled their lives by his precepts and revered his memory as that of a saint.

Formerly, writers accounted for the Lutheran movement by so magnifying the horrors of the pre-existing regime ity of the that it appeared intolerable, and its abolition consequently inevitable.

The land prospered rapidly during this respite from the horrors of war.

The horrors culminated in the capture of Tripolitsa, the capital of the vilayet.

Frontenac planned attacks upon New England and encouraged a ruthless border warfare that involved many horrors.

It consequently seems evident that if this situation be prolonged it will inevitably result in the very disaster it is sought to avoid, and the thought of the horrors of which makes every humane mind shudder.

The haunting memories of these horrors played havoc with the nerves of a supersensitive child.

On the breaking up of the gardes du corps Biran retired to his patrimonial inheritance of Grateloup, near Bergerac, where his retired life preserved him from the horrors of the Revolution.

Rather than encounter alone the horrors of a four months' journey to Lhasa they resolved to wait for eight months till the arrival of a Tibetan embassy on its return from Peking.

The history of witchcraft in Europe and its attendant horrors, so vividly painted in Lecky's Rise of Rationalism, are but echoes of this universal refusal of savage man to accept death as the natural end of life.

They begin in the thirteenth year of his reign, and tell us that in the ninth year he had invaded Kalinga, and had been so deeply impressed by the horrors involved in warfare that he had then given up the desire for conquest, and devoted himself to conquest by "religion."

In 1901, after years of disastrous drought and famine, the government of India appointed a commission to examine throughout all India what could be done by irrigation to alleviate the horrors of famine.

It would have been wiser to put the revenges as reprisals for the undeniable horrors committed by Montrose's Irish levies.

In 1560 the Inquisition with all its horrors was introduced into Goa.

The reports of the society laid bare the existence of similar horrors in numbers of other gaols.

The blockade lasted more than six months, during which the city was a prey to all the horrors of siege and famine.

Certain bodies of rules intended to mitigate the horrors of war have received the adhesion of most civilized states.

The writer views Paul's death (like the horrors of Nero's Vatican Gardens in 64) as a mere exception to the rule of Roman policy heretofore illustrated.

He also made many songs of the terrors of the coming judgment, of the horrors of hell and the sweetness of heaven; and of the mercies and the judgments of God."

Naturally delicate and highly-strung, he was profoundly stirred by the horrors of the siege of Lyons.

In the second place, the persecution deprived the Anabaptists of the noble leaders who had preached non-resistance and at the same time provoked others to an attitude of vengeance which culminated in the horrors of Munster.

The poet does not describe the events of the siege, nor the horrors of the capture, but the painful experience of subjection and tyranny which followed.

Very striking is the description, like that given six centuries later by Marco Polo, of the quasi-supernatural horrors that beset the lonely traveller in the wilderness - the visions of armies and banners; and the manner in which they are dissipated singularly recalls passages in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

He must have been a consenting party to the hideous massacres of Marius and Cinna in 87, though he seems to have done what he could to mitigate their horrors.

A legend in Jerome and Epiphanius states that he was stoned to death at Daphnae, but the biography, though not averse from horrors, does not mention this.

His choice of subject in this instance was certainly not made from any love of warfare or indifference to its horrors.

In the Compensations he sought to prove that, on the whole, happiness and misery are equally balanced, and therefore that men should accept the government which is given them rather than risk the horrors of revolution.

The insurrection in Russo- Bulgaria, with its accompanying horrors, followed by Turkish the deposition of sultan Murad and the succession of w ar of 1877-78.

The first attack upon the horrors of the slave-trade was made in 1788; and in the same year, in the debates on the Regency Bill caused by the kings insanity, Pitt defended against Fox the right of parliament to make provision for the exercise of the powers of the crown when the wearer was permanently or temporarily disabled from exercising his authority.

The full measure of the intolerable conditions prevailing in the country was revealed by the horrors of the rebellion of 1798, and after this had been suppressed Pitt decided that the only way to deal with the situation was to establish a union between Great Britain and Ireland, similar to that which had proved so successful in the case of England and Scotland.

While Clarkson conducted the agitation throughout the country, Wilberforce took every opportunity in the House of Commons of exposing the evils and horrors of the trade.

The horrors of this war it is impossible to exaggerate.

These horrors were enacted by day, in a thoroughfare crowded with "respectable" citizens sheltered from the rain by umbrellas.

The horrors of corrupt gangster capitalism are impressed upon people's minds every day that passes.

They are almost casual in their telling of the horrors that consumed them.

Despite this flaw, however, Amistad still provides a powerful indictment of slavery, and brilliantly conveys the horrors of the slave trade.

Predictably, the appetite for Gothic horrors seems to grow as the taste for more wholesome art declines.

In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

In this remake of the classic 1953 Andre de Toth film that starred Vincent Price, horrors abound in a creepy wax museum.