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horror

[ hawr-er, hor- ]

noun

  1. 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:

  2. anything that causes such a feeling:

    killing, looting, and other horrors of war.

  3. such a feeling as a quality or condition:

    to have known the horror of slow starvation.

  4. a strong aversion; abhorrence:

    to have a horror of emotional outbursts.

    Synonyms: , , , ,

    Antonyms:

  5. Informal. something considered bad or tasteless:

    That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.

  6. horrors, Informal.
    1. extreme depression.


adjective

  1. inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.:

    The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.

  2. centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events:

    a horror movie.

interjection

  1. horrors, (used as a mild expression of dismay, surprise, disappointment, etc.)

horror

/ 藞丑蓲谤蓹 /

noun

  1. extreme fear; terror; dread
  2. intense loathing; hatred
  3. often plural a thing or person causing fear, loathing, etc
  4. modifier having a frightening subject, esp a supernatural one

    a horror film

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of horror1

First recorded in 1520鈥30; from Latin horror, equivalent to horr- (stem of 丑辞谤谤脓谤别 鈥渢o bristle with fear鈥; horrendous ) + -or -or 1; replacing Middle English orrour, from Anglo-French, from Latin 丑辞谤谤艒谤-, stem of horror
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of horror1

C14: from Latin: a trembling with fear; compare hirsute
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Idioms and Phrases

see under throw up one's hands .
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Synonym Study

See terror.
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His ability to make that, and now this technical expertise, digestible in a horror genre is really impressive and special.

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Even before 鈥淪inners鈥 saw success at the box office, the horror film was a hit among critics.

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He said: "People with unions get paid better wages, shock, horror. That's how it's supposed to work."

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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.

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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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