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What (who) is horror - definition
horror
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Horror (disambiguation); Horrors; Horrow; The Horrors (disambiguation); Horror (album); Horror (movie); Horror (film); Horor; Hororr
(horrors)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Horror is a feeling of great shock, fear, and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant.
As I watched in horror the boat began to power away from me.
= terror
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If you have a horror of something, you are afraid of it or dislike it very much.
...his horror of death.
N-SING: N of n
3.
The horror of something, especially something that hurts people, is its very great unpleasantness.
...the horror of this most bloody of civil wars.
N-SING: oft N of n
4.
You can refer to extremely unpleasant or frightening experiences as horrors.
Can you possibly imagine all the horrors we have undergone since I last wrote you?
N-COUNT: usu pl
5.
A horror film or story is intended to be very frightening.
...a psychological horror film.
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
You can refer to an account of a very unpleasant experience or event as a horror story.
...a horror story about lost luggage while flying.
ADJ: ADJ n
horror
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Horror (disambiguation); Horrors; Horrow; The Horrors (disambiguation); Horror (album); Horror (movie); Horror (film); Horor; Hororr
¦ noun
1. intense fear, shock, or disgust.
a cause of horror.
(the horrors) an attack of extreme anxiety: the mere thought of it gives me the horrors.
great dismay.
2. informal a bad or mischievous person, especially a child.
Origin
ME: via OFr. from L. horror, from horrere (see horrid).
horror
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Horror (disambiguation); Horrors; Horrow; The Horrors (disambiguation); Horror (album); Horror (movie); Horror (film); Horor; Hororr
n.
1) to express; feel horror
2) to have a horror of
3) indescribable, unspeakable horror
4) horror at (she expressed her horror at the crime)
5) in horror (to scream in horror)
6) to one's horror (to his horror, the bus caught fire)
Examples of use of horror
1. The dictionary referred me to "more at ‘horror.‘ " Horror?
2. A horror–story scenario, perhaps, but it doesn‘t come across like a horror story.
3. It was exciting to draw from old horror movies, but it wasn‘t real horror.
4. "The Americans... will see horror that would make them forget the horror they saw in Vietnam," he said.
5. There’s a lot of horror stories, and the administration is just not going to want those horror stories to come out.