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What (who) is terror - definition
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The Terror (disambiguation); Terrorising; The Terror (comics); Terror (comics); Terror (Comics); Terrify; Terrifies; Terrifying; Terror (disambiguation); Terrorize; Terror (film); The Terror (film); Terror (character); Terrors
terror
n.
1) to employ, engage in, resort to, sow, unleash terror
2) to inspire terror; to strike terror into (to strike terror into the hearts of people)
3) sheer, stark terror
4) (colloq.) a holy terror
5) in terror (to live in terror of smt.)
6) (misc.) a campaign, reign of terror
Terror
·noun That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
II. Terror ·noun Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
terror
(terrors)
1.
Terror is very great fear.
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...
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2.
Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons.
The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.
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3.
A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.
...the terrors of violence.
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4.
If someone describes a child as a terror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control. (INFORMAL)
He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
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Examples of use of terror
1. "The response was terror and terror and terror and terror again," Olmert said.
2. Britain terror alert timeline Flight tips in age of terror Britain wakes to terror alert Scotland Yard terror statement UK terror plot ‘very serious‘
3. Weakness in the face of terror only encourages more terror.
4. Skip gossip links to more articles News÷ Terror police warned of tanker attack on London Terror÷ Bush dismisses Al Qaeda terror threat Archive÷ Police warn of third terror bomb cell Report÷ PM‘s anti–terror plans ‘half–baked‘ News÷ London terror attacks ‘not linked‘ Stores in the West End and tourist areas were worst affected.
5. The terror card cannot be played again, because the terror has abated.