terror
ter|ror /t'erər/ (terrors)
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Terror is very great fear.
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons.
The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.
3 [N-COUNT]
A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.
...the terrors of violence.
4 [N-COUNT]
If someone describes a child as a terror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control. (INFORMAL)
He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
5
reign of terror: see reign
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Terror is very great fear.
I shook with terror whenever I was about to fly in an aeroplane...
2 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N n
Terror is violence or the threat of violence, especially when it is used for political reasons.
The bomb attack on the capital could signal the start of a pre-election terror campaign.
3 [N-COUNT]
A terror is something that makes you very frightened.
As a boy, he had a real terror of facing people.
...the terrors of violence.
4 [N-COUNT]
If someone describes a child as a terror, they think that he or she is naughty and difficult to control. (INFORMAL)
He was a terror. He had been a difficult child for as long as his parents could remember.
5
reign of terror: see reign