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Terror
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- 1 A strict teacher who fails most of the students. Philippines, slang
"I have a terror math teacher."
- 1 The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. usually
- 2 Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror. usually
- 1 Intense dread, fright, or fear. countable, uncountable
"The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme."
- 2 the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons) wordnet
- 3 The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction. uncountable
- 4 an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety wordnet
- 5 Something or someone that causes such fear. countable
"The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!"
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- 6 a very troublesome child wordnet
- 7 Terrorism. uncountable
"a terror attack"
- 8 a person who inspires fear or dread wordnet
- 9 A night terror. countable
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror m (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror m (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).
Proper noun form of terror. Translation of French Terreur, as coined by the Thermidorian Reaction
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