terrors

Noun

terror (countable and uncountable, plural terrors)

1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.
   • The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.1794, William Godwin, Things as they are; or, The adventures of Caleb

   Synonyms:

   fear, afraidness

2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
   • 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...1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament...
4. (uncountable) Terrorism.
   • a terror attack
5. (countable) A night terror.

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