terror
/ˈtɛɹɚ/ sustantivo B1En español: terror
- Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- Something or someone that causes such fear.
- Terrorism. · a terror attack· the War on Terror
- A night terror.
Plural terrors
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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
It was fortunate the Tin Woodman had no heart at that moment, for it would have beat loud and fast from terror.
For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it and would not move.
The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: “Pray, do come and help me; the Wolf is killing the sheep;” but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance.
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