Word Finder - terror

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Intense dread, fright, or fear.

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The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

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Something or someone that causes such fear.

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Terrorism

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a terror attack; the War on Terror

Anger and terror were on his face.

A new terror filled her.

Had her family known the same terror in their last moments of life?

A wild impulse to jump seized me, but terror held me fast.

The horse's terror infected the men.

The fact that she shows no terror as she sits before me is most vexing.

Terror drove her to ignore the pain in her lungs and legs.

It was a scene of terror not only to the accused but to judges and to jury.

He was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror, and was only released by the counter-revolution of the 9th Thermidor.

On the Third himself, and took advantage of the wars of the Syrian princes, and of the terror inspired by the advance of the crusaders to conquer Jerusalem (August 1098).

What was that terror I felt of him?

Infected by the terror in his voice, she sat up and flipped on the light.

Terror on his face, Isac stayed where he was.

The worst thing was their terror of reaching the bottom of this great crack in the earth, and the natural fear that sudden death was about to overtake them at any moment.

Pierre knew that everyone was waiting for him to say a word and cross a certain line, and he knew that sooner or later he would step across it, but an incomprehensible terror seized him at the thought of that dreadful step.

And lastly you too, peasants, come from the forests where you are hiding in terror, return to your huts without fear, in full assurance that you will find protection!

Terror seized young Nicholas and he awoke.

Sarah and Connor stood above, gawking at her with a mix of terror and awe.

All was now terror and confusion.

Then came the memorable "proscription," when for the first time in Roman history a list of men declared to be outlaws and public enemies was exhibited in the forum, and a reign of terror began throughout Rome and Italy.

Pure terror, she answered mentally.

She.d never known the type of terror that tore through her when she saw the jaguar snatch him.

They were a weapon apt to be dangerous to the employer, but the terror they inspired was such that every potentate sought to get hold of them.

After being twice imprisoned during the Terror he retired to Brittany, where he devoted himself to literature till 1814.

The Greeks, advancing prematurely over broken ground and in no sort of order, were fallen upon in flank by d feat at Reshid's horsemen, and fled in panic terror.

For a long time, when I wrote a letter, even to my mother, I was seized with a sudden feeling of terror, and I would spell the sentences over and over, to make sure that I had not read them in a book.

Terror washed over her at his calm, controlled words.

Terror of Darkyn finding out made Jade snap, and he withdrew his machete.

The Cordeliers were combated by those revolutionists who wished to end the Terror, especially by Danton, and by Camille Desmoulins in his journal Le Vieux Cordelier.

With the ferocious fanaticism or the ruthless opportunism of the future organizers of the Terror they had nothing in common.

All Rome was in terror.

The mere thought filled me with terror.

Hence, too, he spoiled nothing by anxious revision in terror lest some phrase not of the golden age should escape from his pen.

The excuse for the Terror that followed was the imminent peril of France, menaced on the east by the advance of the armies of the Coalition, on the west by the Royalist insurrection of La Vendee, and the need for preventing at all costs the outbreak of another civil war.

The Hungarians (Magyars) declined to surrender the territories inhabited by Slovaks, and it was necessary to call in the military help of the Czechs before the last Hungarian troops, who had initiated a reign of terror in Slovakia, could be driven out of the land.

Then followed a reign of terror which lasted for years.

Dark Horse Comics presents Museum of Terror, a series of horror stories by Japan's foremost creator of horror manga.

But during the night the fury of the wind increased to such a degree that it thrilled us with a vague terror.

With fingers on the trigger guard just in case we made an error, sweat pouring down our backs as we lay in terror.

Ulster people have had nearly 30 years of a fearsome terror campaign inflicted on them, a campaign which cost 3,600 lives.

What causes night terrors can vary from the stress felt by a three year old during a family divorce to a medication-induced night terror in an adult.

Trauma Terror is a thrilling drop ride with great views before the final plummet down to earth.

These creatures can be seen as objects of terror, or of strength.

Simple galls are those that arise when only one member of a plant is involved; compound galls 1 For figure and description see Zoology of the " Erebus " and " Terror," ii.

Luther limited the meaning of the word to mean a definite command accompanied by threats, which counts on terror to produce obedience.

The mercantile marine of the United States was almost driven off the high seas by the terror of these destructive cruisers.

He was murdered by royalists during the White Terror at Avignon on the 2nd of August 1815.

The capture of Antioch was due to his connexion with Firuz, one of the commanders in the city; but he would not bring matters to an issue until the possession of the city was assured him (May 1098), under the terror of the approach of Kerbogha with a great army of relief, and with a reservation in favour of Alexius, if Alexius should fulfil his promise to aid the crusaders.

On each succeeding anniversary of that day, with the prevalent desire of perpetuating a feud, the citizens marched out to Cullenswood with banners displayed - "a terror to the native Irish."

Dublin castle was fortified; and the citizens lived in a state of terror for several weeks together.