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Plural for extreme fear or horror
“A victim of nuisance youths has described how he waits in terror for what they will do next.”
Plural for the state or quality of being awful or horrid
“The terror of the situation is somehow interwoven with this silence.”
Plural for an emotional difficulty or a psychological inhibition
“Even then, this public fear is only a surrogate for one's real personal terror.”
Plural for a person that causes extreme fear or trouble
“At nineteen, Jeremiah McAuley was a thief and the terror of the New York waterfront.”
Plural for a person, especially a child, that causes mischief or annoyance
“The mother then grabbed the candy her little terror had just stripped from the shelves at the checkout aisle.”
Plural for the deliberate commission of an act of violence to create public fear
Plural for a cause of great distress or misfortune
Plural for a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance
Plural for a continuing state of great pain, torment or unhappiness
Plural for extreme and irrational distrust of others
(narratology) Plural for a technique of having something occur suddenly to frighten the audience
Plural for a noisy or disorderly person
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