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Substantiivit
- (uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
- (countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
- (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
- (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
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- The terrors with which I was seized[...]were extreme.
- 1921, Edith Birkhead, The tale of terror: a study of the Gothic romance
- The terrors of the storm
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
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