terror
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tres-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti
Proto-Italic *trozeō
Latin terreō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin terrorbor.
Old French terreur
Middle French terreurbor.
Middle English terrour
English terror
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: terrors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: terrour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more terror
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terror
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: terrour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Intense dread, fright, or fear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
"How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."
Fear of their cargo bred a savage cruelty into the crew. One captain, to strike terror into the rest, killed a slave and dividing heart, liver and entrails into 300 pieces made each of the slaves eat one, threatening those who refused with the same torture. Such incidents were not rare.
gloss: The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something or someone that causes such fear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
The terrors of the storm
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
gloss: Terrorism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a terror attack
the War on Terror
Rank-and-file progressives don’t usually think of the immigration policies they support—expanding refugee quotas, easing restrictions on some classes of immigrants, and ending family separation—as an endorsement of detention, deportation, and racialized terror.
gloss: A night terror.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A strict teacher who fails most of the students.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
slang
examples: I have a terror math teacher.
Synonyms: horror
terror
Related words: in terrorem
terrible
terrific
terrify
alarm
dismay
panic
frighten
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Derived words: agroterror
antiterror
balance of terror
bioterror
counterterror
cyberterror
ecoterror
holy terror
megaterror
narcoterror
night terror
nonterror
pterror
red terror
reign of terror
Reign of Terror
saffron terror
sleep terror
stochastic terror
terrification
terror bird
terrorbomb
terror bomb
terror-bomb
terror bombing
terror-bombing
terror cell
terrorcore
terrorful
terrorise
terrorism
terrorist
terroristic
terrorize
terrorized
terrorless
terrormonger
terrorsome
terrorsploitation
terror-stricken
terrorstricken
terrorstruck
terrorwave
white terror
yellow terror
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սարսափ
roman: sarsapʻ
lang: Catalan
word: terror
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 詭異的事物 /诡异的事物
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 恐怖
roman: kǒngbù
lang: Dutch
word: verschrikking
lang: Esperanto
word: teruraĵo
lang: Finnish
word: kauhu
lang: French
word: terreur
lang: Galician
word: terror
lang: German
word: Terror
lang: Greek
word: τρόμος
roman: trómos
lang: Greek
word: φόβητρο
roman: fóvitro
lang: Ancient Greek
word: δεινόν
roman: deinón
lang: Hungarian
word: rém
lang: Japanese
word: 恐怖
roman: kyōfu
lang: Korean
word: 공포
roman: gongpo
lang: Malayalam
word: ഭീകരം
roman: bhīkaraṁ
lang: Middle English
word: ferdnesse
lang: Portuguese
word: terror
lang: Russian
word: у́жас
roman: úžas
lang: Spanish
word: terror