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terror
  1. (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
  2. (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
  3. (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
  4. (uncountable) terrorism
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “A victim of nuisance youths has described how he waits in terror for what they will do next.”
      “The terror of the situation is somehow interwoven with this silence.”
      “Even then, this public fear is only a surrogate for one's real personal terror.”
terrorism
  1. The deliberate commission of an act of violence to create public fear through the suffering of the victims in the furtherance of a political or social agenda.
  2. The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives.
  3. A form of psychological manipulation through warfare to the purpose of political or religious gains, by means of deliberately creating a climate of fear amongst the inhabitants of a specific geographical region.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “A site where an act of terrorism has taken place should be treated like a crime scene.”
      “Various polls show that up to 80 percent of Americans expect and accept some abridgments of individual freedom to combat the threat of terrorism.”
      “In other words, the ending of the occupation requires the defeat of terrorism.”
terrorist
  1. A person, group, or organization that uses violent action, or the threat of violent action, to further political goals.
  2. An agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “And if they think that his representative is too effective, they can always charge them with aiding and abetting a terrorist.”
terroriser
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorizer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And Albrighton should have scored when Downing stood up a measured ball to the back post, but the Tamworth terroriser somehow nodded wide with the goal at his mercy.”
      “Boro had to dig deep into their reserves to overcome a resolute Hednesford and yet again it was the teenage terroriser James Armson who was the scourge of the opposition.”
terrorizer
  1. Someone who terrorizes, who induces terror, a terror.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He punches a hole through a drum, snaps obscenities at his competition, and even assaults his terrorizer.”
      Terrorizer does not truly represent Great Britain, on the other hand, Metal Hammer does.”
      “With Terrorizer, which is a magazine for those who are passionate about metal, we have the same kind of relationship as with French magazines but their business remains quite amateurish.”
terribility
  1. The quality of being terrible.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The terribility of the horror movie lies in its ability to evoke fear and unease in every scene.”
terrifyingness
  1. The state or condition of being terrifying.
terrorisation
  1. Alternative form of terrorization
terribleness
  1. The characteristic of being terrible.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The terribleness of the situation was truly overwhelming, as the catastrophic tornado had left the town in ruins.”
      “We have to see the reason behind the coercion, to experience the terribleness in the threat, before we, too, feel its presence.”
      “His family knew what we had gone through and wanted to avoid the terribleness of a similar graveside experience.”
terrifier
  1. One who, or that which, terrifies.
  2. Examples:
    1. “So again we ask, how can it be said that Saturn, the supreme terrifier among the planets, can be your greatest friend?”
      “Squirt taught Pippi everything he knew about wrestling, and she'd probably make a good terrifier of rodents if given a chance.”
terrorizee
  1. (very rare) One who is terrorized.
terrorization
  1. The act of terrorizing.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “They were friends, even though he annoyed her and Marian more than anything, but with the years, it changed from terrorization to teasing.”
      “The psychological impact of such terrorization upon local communities can scarcely be imagined.”
      “It is improbable that any terrorization of the civil population which can be achieved by air attack could compel the government of a nation to surrender.”
terrour
  1. Obsolete form of terror.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He has disarmed it of its terrour at Muack, by inoculating eighty of his people.”
terrorizations
  1. plural of terrorization
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The Syrian army left Lebanon and the mechanisms of dominance revealed their true colors through a long series of assassinations, terrorizations, and accusations of disloyalty.”
      “These structures were not of accidental design but of the most diabolical calculations to permit the greatest amount of terrorizations upon the People once trapped inside.”
terrorisations
  1. plural of terrorisation
  2. Examples:
    1. “If her manner of opposing the debate was deemed objectionable, there were ways for people to disagree without resorting to lurid terrorisations.”
terriblenesses
terribilities
terrorisers
  1. plural of terroriser
  2. Examples:
    1. “Only the terrorisers aren't inbred hillbillies, they're teenage hoodies.”
terrorizers
  1. plural of terrorizer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Terror is a weapon, and if you're unduly scared, then the terrorizers have achieved at least one of their goals.”
      “For on the day that the fear of terrorism affects your actions and habits, the terrorizers have already won.”
      “With some wood chips or sawdust added for bedding, it's a very attractive home to these little mice terrorizers.”
terrorizees
  1. plural of terrorizee
terrifiers
  1. plural of terrifier
  2. Examples:
    1. “Flamingo Land has lots more terrifiers including the new vertical Velocity, the fastest launch roller-coaster of its type in the world.”
terrorists
  1. plural of terrorist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Some, in fact, either inadvertently or deliberately, may have been involved in aiding and abetting the terrorists.”
      “Only the triumph of nonviolence, secured through just laws justly applied, will bring the terrorists down.”
      “In the past, I've criticized Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and anti-abortion terrorists.”
terrorisms
terrours
  1. plural of terrour
terrors
  1. plural of terror
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He is alone with his terrors gripped by feelings of desperation and living at the limits.”
      “Nyctophobia is mostly present in young children, and starts out with night terrors and a healthy fear of the boogeyman.”
      “Night terrors often occur in patients with psychopathology, especially in adults with post-traumatic stress syndrome.”
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