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   terror-stricken
         adj 1: struck or filled with terror [syn: {terror-stricken},
                  {terror-struck}]

English Dictionary: terrorise by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terror-struck
adj
  1. struck or filled with terror [syn: terror-stricken, terror-struck]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorisation
n
  1. the act of inspiring with fear [syn: terrorization, terrorisation, frightening]
  2. an act of terrorism
    Synonym(s): terrorization, terrorisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorise
v
  1. coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorize, terrorise]
  2. fill with terror; frighten greatly
    Synonym(s): terrify, terrorize, terrorise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorism
n
  1. the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
    Synonym(s): terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist
n
  1. a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist act
n
  1. the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear
    Synonym(s): terrorism, act of terrorism, terrorist act
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist attack
n
  1. a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist cell
n
  1. a cell of terrorists (usually 3 to 5 members); "to insure operational security the members of adjacent terrorist cells usually don't know each other or the identity of their leadership"
    Synonym(s): terrorist cell, radical cell
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist group
n
  1. a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
    Synonym(s): terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorist organization
n
  1. a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals
    Synonym(s): terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorization
n
  1. the act of inspiring with fear [syn: terrorization, terrorisation, frightening]
  2. an act of terrorism
    Synonym(s): terrorization, terrorisation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
terrorize
v
  1. coerce by violence or with threats [syn: terrorize, terrorise]
  2. fill with terror; frighten greatly
    Synonym(s): terrify, terrorize, terrorise
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
throw rug
n
  1. a small rug; several can be used in a room [syn: {scatter rug}, throw rug]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tree-worship
n
  1. the worship of trees
    Synonym(s): arborolatry, tree-worship
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Terrorism \Ter"ror*ism\, n. [Cf. F. terrorisme.]
      The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode
      of government by terror or intimidation. --Jefferson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Terrorist \Ter"ror*ist\, n. [F. terroriste.]
      One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically,
      an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the
      Reign of Terror in France. --Burke.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Terrorize \Ter"ror*ize\, v. t. [Cf. F. terroriser.]
      To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation.
  
               Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and
               terrorized by ecclesiastical authority.   --J. A.
                                                                              Symonds.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Horror \Hor"ror\, n. [Formerly written horrour.] [L. horror, fr.
      horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread,
      to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h[?]sh to bristle.]
      1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous
            movement. [Archaic]
  
                     Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
                     wrinkled waves.                                 --Chapman.
  
      2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit
            which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill
            of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an
            algor.
  
      3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
            shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
            inspired by something frightful and shocking.
  
                     How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
                     horrors of conscience be uttered?      --Milton.
  
      4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
            dreariness.
  
                     Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
  
      {The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Triarchy \Tri"ar*chy\, n.; pl. {Triarchies}. [Gr. [?]; [?] (see
      {Tri-}) + [?] to rule.]
      Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country
      under three rulers. --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Triarchy \Tri"ar*chy\, n.; pl. {Triarchies}. [Gr. [?]; [?] (see
      {Tri-}) + [?] to rule.]
      Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country
      under three rulers. --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Trirectangular \Tri`rec*tan"gu*lar\, a. [Pref. tri- +
      rectangular.] (Spherical Trig.)
      Having three right angles. See {Triquadrantal}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Tuy8are \[d8]Tu`y[8a]re"\, n. [F.; akin to tuyau a pipe; of
      Teutonic origin. Cf. {Tweer}, {Tewel}.]
      A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is
      delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire
      of a forge. [Corruptly written also {tweer}, and {twier}.]
  
      {Tuy[8a]re arch}, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast
            furnace through which the tuy[8a]re enters.
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