meaning of horror
1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
2. 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.
3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
5. something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to
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Related Words
horror | horror-sticken | horror-stricken | horror-struck |
