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Horror
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- 1 An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance. countable, uncountable
"Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim."
- 2 something that inspires horror; something horrible wordnet
- 3 Something horrible; that which excites horror. countable, uncountable
"I saw many horrors during the war."
- 4 intense aversion wordnet
- 5 Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. countable, uncountable
"“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ”"
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- 6 intense and profound fear wordnet
- 7 A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. uncountable
"Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’"
- 8 A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.; An individual work in this genre. countable
- 9 A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror. colloquial, countable
"The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!"
- 10 An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors. countable, informal, uncountable
- 11 Delirium tremens. countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable
"`My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'"
Etymology
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
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