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NOUN:
  1. Intense, overpowering fear. See Synonyms at fear.
  2. One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.
  3. The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.
  4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
  5. Informal An annoying or intolerable pest: that little terror of a child.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur, from Latin terror, from terrre, to frighten


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