(v. i.) To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
(v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
(v. t.) To terrify; to affright.
Example Sentences:
Horror
Definition:
(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
(n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
Example Sentences:
(1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(2) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
(3) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(4) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(5) What to do in the face of such horrors and dangers?
(6) It wasn't the horror of the incident that interested King, but the unanswered questions.
(7) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
(8) David Baines, a campaigner for Labour in the UK, remarked on the “horror” in Aleppo.
(9) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
(10) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
(11) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(12) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
(13) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(14) In an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, Fahma – alongside other members of the youth charity Integrate Bristol – met with the education secretary, Michael Gove, to ask him to write to every school in the country about the horrors of FGM.
(15) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
(16) And the horrors encountered inside the school were so great that when police sent in paramedics, they tried to select ones capable of handling what they were about to witness.
(17) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
(18) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
(19) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(20) "When you see that image in your mind of bodies being burned it does bring back memories of the end of world war two, and the horror and the shame and the shock," Kirby said.