terror
Intense dread, fright, or fear.
Noun 4 meanings
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”
Etymology
From late Middle English terrour, from Old French terreur f (“terror, fear, dread”), from Latin terror (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-European *tre- (“to shake”), *tres- (“to tremble”).
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TERROR at a glance
TERROR has 6 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (T 1 + E 1 + R 1 + R 1 + O 1 + R 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,551 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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