horror.
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Meaning & usage
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Something horrible; that which excites horror.
I saw many horrors during the war.
Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. An individual work in this genre.
A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!
An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
Delirium tremens.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
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