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(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear. / (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

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terror

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Source Word

terror

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/

Noun

countable uncountable

Japanese Meaning

強烈な恐怖、不安や恐怖心の深い感情 / 恐怖を引き起こす行為や性質、特に物語において恐怖感を生み出す要素

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She felt a sudden terror as the lights went out, freezing her in place.

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電気が消えたとき、彼女は突然強烈な恐怖を感じてその場に凍りついた。

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(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.

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(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance

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(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

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