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horror
[ hawr-er, hor- ]
noun
- an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear:
to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
Synonyms: , ,
Antonyms:
- anything that causes such a feeling:
killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
- such a feeling as a quality or condition:
to have known the horror of slow starvation.
- a strong aversion; abhorrence:
to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms:
- Informal. something considered bad or tasteless:
That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
- horrors, Informal.
- extreme depression.
adjective
- inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.:
The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.
- centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events:
a horror movie.
interjection
- horrors, (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.)
horror
/ 藞丑蓲谤蓹 /
noun
- extreme fear; terror; dread
- intense loathing; hatred
- often plural a thing or person causing fear, loathing, etc
- modifier having a frightening subject, esp a supernatural one
a horror film
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of horror1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of horror1
Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
His ability to make that, and now this technical expertise, digestible in a horror genre is really impressive and special.
Even before 鈥淪inners鈥 saw success at the box office, the horror film was a hit among critics.
He said: "People with unions get paid better wages, shock, horror. That's how it's supposed to work."
Ms Cherry's husband has described how he "watched in helpless horror" as his wife was fatally injured at the club on Blake Street in Shenstone.
With 鈥淪tranger Things鈥 being of the horror genre, versus the family-friendly 鈥淗arry Potter,鈥 how do you make illusions as scary as possible?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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