Terror - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a person who inspires fear or dread (syn: scourge, threat)
- the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
Extra examples
The sound of guns being fired fills me with terror.
Many civilians fled in terror.
These people have been living with terror and the threat of terror for many years.
People fled in terror as fire tore through the building.
Shots rang out, and I screamed in terror.
We lived in terror of our father when he was drinking.
There was a look of sheer terror (=complete terror) on his face.
The sound of enemy planes struck terror into our hearts.
Death holds no terrors for (=does not frighten) me.
The resistance movement started a campaign of terror.
The Red Army Faction tried to undermine the state by terror tactics.
Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia
That Johnson kid's a real little terror!
...unbounded terror that was caused by the simultaneous detonation of seven car bombs around the city...
More Wrath than Terror, has seized me. I am very mad.
Word forms
singular: terror
plural: terrors
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