(n.) Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
(n.) That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
(2) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
(3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(4) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(5) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
(6) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(7) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(8) It could still be terrorism but it looks as if the aircraft went out of control because the controls were literally burning up.
(9) In fact the very seriousness of the threat terrorism poses and this suggested response demands a full discussion.
(10) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.
(11) Lahoor Talabani, director of counter terrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said: "According to the intelligence we have, just Britain alone have around 400 to 450 known people fighting amongst the ranks of Isis."
(12) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
(13) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(14) If we accept that al-Qaida continues to pose a deadly threat to the UK, and if we know that it is capable of changing the locations of its bases and modifying its attack plans, we must accept that we have a duty to question the wisdom of prioritising, in terms of government spending on counter-terrorism, the deployment of our forces to Afghanistan.
(15) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(16) Then wham, the sudden terrors again, about nothing in particular.
(17) Kiev said the rebels carried out the attacks themselves, with the prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calling it an act of “Russian terrorism”.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police and members of the emergency services attend to victims of a terror attack on London Bridge.
(19) Republican hopeful Donald Trump has launched a US presidential campaign advert attacking Barack Obama for supposedly prioritising Star Wars over the battle against terrorism.
(20) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.
Transfix
Definition:
(v. t.) To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
Example Sentences:
(1) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
(2) Photograph: Getty So that was the grand import of the producer’s vision, realised on an unprecedented scale and to eventual rightful acclaim: despite Gagarin and the rest, Americans in particular (and then Australia, and Britain) became transfixed by all the unfolding tales and testimonies.
(3) In a series of trials involving a uniform axial load, different transfixing wire tensions, and the separation of paired proximal and distal rings, fragment displacement was measured.
(4) Transcutaneous wires and pins in wire-tension Ilizarov external fixators provide frame stability, transfix and transport bone segments, produce distraction, and stimulate transosseous osteogenesis.
(5) A modified Ilizarov external fixator was used to transfix the stifle joint in 13 dogs.
(6) The adjacent vertebrae were transfixed by two 3-mm Steinman pins placed vertically.
(7) We concluded that patients with non-union following high tibial osteotomy for osteoarthritis of the knee should undergo resection of the pseudarthrosis and transfixation compression as the treatment of choice.
(8) The windows become viewing stations to stare out of – transfixed by every small jet that magically lifts from the ground carrying tonnes of travellers and trinkets.
(9) The distal phalanx was then transfixed to the bone graft by 2 crossed-K-wires.
(10) The monofixateur is indicated for treatment of closed, open and infected fractures, pseudarthrosis, osteotomy adaption, arthrodesis and joint transfixations.
(11) I was transfixed by scholars such as Claire Pajaczkowska, who wore Doc Martens but were bringing us poststructuralism straight off the press.
(12) According to the principles of treatment for other tarsal injuries, we carried out open reduction with joint debridement, reconstruction of ligaments and internal stabilization with transfixation screws.
(13) Watching her on stage, as she coiled and uncoiled her impossible limbs, I had become transfixed by the question of what was going on in her head while she danced.
(14) Sahloul stood transfixed, the scene unfolding like a silent movie in front of him.
(15) With a stiff catheter in the urethra, via a horizontal 'H'-shaped perineal incision and through the puborectalis sling, the rectum was mobilised and the fistula transfixed.
(16) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(17) Because of delayed treatment, transfixation of carpal bones (necessary for stability), and surgical trauma, degenerative joint disease with osteophyte formation occurred in all 5 horses.
(18) Temperature measurements were performed during drilling, smooth part penetration (transfixing pins), tapping, and screwing.
(19) Rotational displacement was limited the most by transfixation between the vertebral bodies (position one or two).
(20) In order to prevent the making of a triangular-shaped crown, a false transfixed core removable is built over the intramobile component of the IMZ as well as pa periodontal ring.