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terror

Very strong or intense fear. I never felt such terror as when I was robbed at gunpoint. Something that causes such fear. The rabid dog was the terror of the neighborhood. Violence or the threat of violence for political reasons; terrorism. The United States has declared a war on terror. An annoying or unpleasant person, often a naughty child. My little brother can be such a terror!

terror

(= panic) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety a person who inspires fear or dread he was the terror of the neighborhood a very troublesome child the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons) he used terror to make them confess

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Simple sentences

Helen shrieked with terror.
When we saw the animal so near us, we ran away in terror.
I have a terror of heights.
He was paralyzed with terror.
She has a terror of darkness.
She screamed with terror.
She uttered a scream of terror.
Tom could never forget the terror of war.
Some people have a terror of mice.
The vampire movie filled them with terror.
He was rigid with terror.
If the wolf had made the girl quake with terror, it seemed like a lamb beside this dreadful lion.
No act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans.
Most young people don't know the terror of war.
This is a horror staple - young men and women spend a night of terror in an isolated house.
My university friend is against terror.
Tom screamed in terror.
Norway is not ready for another terror attack.
Tom's eyes widened in terror.

Movie subtitles

Now the terror groups in Area 11 will lose their popular support and fall apart.
Mortal terror and fear of death swept through the town.
The Rock of Mauprat spread terror for 20 leagues around.
It seems as though all war and terror and grossness. had fallen away from me. like a miracle.
In vain he fought the terror that seized him, and fear of things he could not name haunted his restless sleep.
He must have gone out of his mind from terror.
This mind would have destroyed mankind, which itself knows only destruction and extermination and which could only have been saved in its final hour through terror and horror.
When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror, and when chaos has become supreme law, then the time will have come for the empire of crime.
Terror!
Stark terror!
We'll begin with a reign of terror.
Power to make multitudes run squealing in terror at the touch of my little invisible finger.
It's Dangerous Ambrose, the terror of the prairie.
Decent men and women with families who are living in terror.
He's a bloodthirsty villain and the terror of the countryside.
The terror of the countryside, huh?
Universal got a lot of mileage out of this scene, as it was recycled for other features and serials, one example being the 1942 feature Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.
It's Dangerous Ambrose, the terror of the prairie. He's got us.
Decent families living in terror.
But he was a real terror with the seals.
By the power and terror of these, you may conquer the earth.
Again, she found none to challenge her and George Amberson Minafer, the Major's one grandchild, was a princely terror.
This is the Voice of Terror.
And she's a terror.
What could terror mean to me who have nothing to fear?
His face a mask of terror.
Hate and more hate was the answer to the Nazi terror.
The horror and terror you feel my dear, comes from being alive.
The terror of it. The.
These horrible rocks, this desolation. that terror.
I dislike inspiring so much terror in such a lovely woman.
I hear she was a terror to work with.
Terror and violence ruled as the nobles plotted to gain control.
Is terror energy?
Hey, coming out, fellas,the terror of Gimbels' basement.
Peaceable folk lived in terror of the thunder of approaching hooves.

News and current affairs

EU membership and the global war on terror, however, demand a more deeply considered response.
Because EU membership affects every aspect of a state, economy, and society, while the war on terror demands a completely new way to conduct diplomacy and security policy.
Any thought that the anti-terror coalition will be able to bail out fast (as the West did when it abandoned Afghanistan to its fate after the Soviet withdrawal ten years ago) should be forgotten.
With the world's focus on the debate over Iraq, the war on terror, and the Bush administration's doctrine of unilateral preemption, the American government's new emphasis on the utility of nuclear weapons has not received the attention it deserves.
Today, the world faces unprecedented challenges at the nexus of terror and weapons of mass destruction.
I firmly believe that the military option alone cannot defeat terror.
On the contrary, one of them has been promoted to command the newly formed (and US-funded) Jakarta Anti-Terror Unit.
He is merely an unthinking nationalist, living in terror of the nationalist yellow tabloid press.
We are haunted by images of terror and warfare.
Obsessed with the war on terror as well as an ideology of privatizing the functions of government, the administration systematically sapped FEMA's long-term ability to prevent disaster or at least cushion the blows when prevention is not possible.
For the US, Iran's nuclear ambitions, opposition to Israel, and support for extremist groups have become increasingly intolerable in the context of the war on terror.
The lambs may have lost out on a few weeks of life, but they were also spared the distress of separation from their mothers, the misery of transportation, possibly for hundreds of kilometres, and the crowding and terror of the slaughterhouse.
In the two-year period that ended on December 31, 2002, more than 1,600 people were prosecuted for endangering state security, most after the terror attacks on the US.
China's government has used the war on terror to crack down on those seeking greater autonomy, including those who do so by peaceful means.
The implication, encouraged by the regime, was that Kaltho was a recruit of mine who blew himself up while preparing his next bomb in a campaign of terror aimed at Sanni Abacha's dictatorship.
In the fight against terrorism, the Strategy abandons the predominantly military viewpoint underlying the war against terror, and embraces a more significant role for the intelligence services.
Austria's past calls for an intensely critical and sensitive approach to injustice, murder, and terror under the Nazi regime.
In the war on terror, it seems, Africa's dictators may find it easier to justify continuing tyranny.
More importantly, their way will ultimately achieve the type of dignity that people really want, as opposed to the unending wars of terror to rebuild the caliphate that Bin Laden promised.
Indeed, despite the decade of the West's war on terror, and Saudi Arabia's longer-term alliance with the US, the Kingdom's Wahhabi religious establishment has continued to bankroll Islamic extremist ideologies around the world.
America's war on terror now risks becoming a permanent war against an expanding list of enemies - often inadvertently created by its own policies.
Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Cold War ended a generation ago; the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, are nearly a decade in the past.
Or is it that we have become so inured to bad news surrounding the war on terror that we have no desire to know more?

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