Meaning

5 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Intense dread, fright, or fear.

    Schrecken, Grauen, schreckliche Furcht

    у́жасúžas, у́жасúžas

    жахžax

    a person who inspires fear or dread

  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.

    an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

  4. (uncountable)Terrorism.

    a terror attack

    the War on Terror

    тера́ктterákt, терро́рterrór, террори́змterrorízm

    тера́ктterákt, теро́рterór, терори́змterorýzm

  5. (countable)A night terror.

Examples

131 sentences

  1. Most young people don't know the terror of war.

    Більшість молоді не знає жахіть війни. — ChickenKiev

    ruМолодёжь большей частью не знает ужасов войны. — shanghainese

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  2. When we saw the animal so near us, we ran away in terror.

    Коли ми побачили цю тварину настільки близько до нас, то втекли нажахані. — ChickenKiev

    deAls wir das Tier so nahe bei uns sahen, liefen wir vor Schreck davon. — Tamy

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  3. She screamed with terror.

    ruОна вскрикнула от ужаса. — Lenin_1917

    deSie schrie vor Schreck. — kolonjano

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  4. Tom screamed in terror.

    ruТом в ужасе вскрикнул. — marafon

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  5. Tom was paralyzed with terror.

    deTom war vor Schreck gelähmt. — wolfgangth

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
extreme fear:
terrorism:
Русский
By meaning 2
extreme fear:
terrorism:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
extreme fear:
something causing fear:

Origin

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from

From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).

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Forms

plural: terrors
Singularterror
Pluralterrors

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
fearA2horrorA2afraidness
Close in meaning

Word family

44 related words
RelatedterribleA1terrificB1terrifyA2alarmA2dismayC1panicA2frightenA2in terroremterroristterrorizeterrorise
DerivedterrorismB1agroterrorantiterrorbioterrorcounterterrorcyberterrorecoterrorholy terrormegaterrornarcoterrornight terrornonterrorpterrorred terrorsaffron terrorsleep terrorstochastic terrorterrificationterror birdterrorbombterror cellterrorcoreterrorfulterroristic

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
terrifyA2territorialterritoryB2terrorismB1terroristB1terrorize
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