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horror - English dictionary definition

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


Synonyms for horror

dismay fear thing