Meaning of horror | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
   countable, uncountable
2. An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance
3. Something horrible; that which excites horror.
   countable, uncountable
4. Something horrible; that which excites horror
5. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
   countable, uncountable
6. Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence
7. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
   uncountable
8. A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense. An individual work in this genre
9. An individual work in this genre.
   countable
10. An individual work in this genre
11. A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
    colloquial, countable
12. An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
    countable, informal, uncountable
13. Delirium tremens.
    countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.”

“I saw many horrors during the war.”

“The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.”

“Could there be stories with more horror than these?”

““Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […] ””

“Those who enjoy horror, stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’”

“A well-received Johnny Fuller R & B horror called "Haunted House."”

“[…] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.”

“The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!”

“`My belief is that he had the horrors without knowin' it.'”

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