terror

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1. 1
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A very strong feeling of fear.

   She froze in terror when the big dog ran toward her.

   The loud crash in the night filled the children with terror.

   Similarfear, fright, dread

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A person or thing that makes people feel great fear.

   The school bully was a terror to all the younger kids.

   Sudden storms are a terror for small fishing boats.

   Similarscourge, menace, nightmare, bane, threat

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   The power of a story, place, or thing to fill people with deep fear.

   The movie builds its terror slowly, scene by scene.

   There was a strange terror in the silence of the empty school at night.

   Similarhorror, dread, menace

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   The use of violence to frighten people for political reasons.

   The country has spent years fighting terror at home and abroad.

   New laws target the money that funds terror groups.

   Similarterrorism

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A sudden episode of great fear that happens during deep sleep, mostly in young children.

   Our son woke up screaming from a terror last night, but he remembered nothing in the morning.

   Most children stop having terrors in their sleep as they get older.

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6. 6
   adjectiveslangPhilippines

   Very strict and quick to fail most students.

   Everyone says the new math teacher is terror, so study hard.

   I got a terror professor for chemistry, and half the class failed.

   Similarstrict, tough, harsh

   Oppositelenient, easy

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