Terror : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Terror	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terror n an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety [syn: panic, terror, affright] a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood" Synonym(s): terror, scourge, threat a very troublesome child Synonym(s): terror, brat, little terror, holy terror the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons); "he used terror to make them confess"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Terror \Ter"ror\, n. [L. terror, akin to terrere to frighten, for tersere; akin to Gr. [?] to flee away, dread, Skr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf. F. terreur. Cf. {Deter}.] 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. --Milton. 2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear. Those enormous terrors of the Nile. --Prior. Rulers are not a terror to good works. --Rom. xiii. 3. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. --Shak. Note: Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like. {King of terrors}, death. --Job xviii. 14. {Reign of Terror}. (F. Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Syn: Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See {Alarm}.