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- pronunciation:
- te
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noun |
| definition 1: |
When you feel terror, you feel very great fear.
Big, hairy spiders fill Jacob with terror.- synonyms:
- fright, horror, panic
- similar words:
- alarm, scare
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| definition 2: |
A terror is a thing or person that causes very great fear.
The tiger had already attacked two people and was the terror of the village.- synonyms:
- fear, horror
- similar words:
- dread, monster
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| definition 3: |
When people talk about terror, they sometimes mean terrible, violent things that people do to cause great fear in other people in order to get something they want.
The recent acts of terror in the city took the lives of many innocent people.- similar words:
- abuse, blackmail
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| related words: |
nightmare, panic |
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