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terror

noun
/ˈtɛɹ.ɚ/US/tɛɚ//ˈtɛ.ɹə/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *tres- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *troséyeti Proto-Italic *trozeō Latin terreō Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Italic *-ōs Latin -or Latin terrorbor. Old French terreur Middle French terreurbor. Middle English terrour English terror 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”).

  1. derived from *tre-✻
  2. derived from *trozeō✻
  3. derived from tr̥reō
  4. derived from terror — “fright, fear, terror”
  5. derived from terreur
  6. inherited from terrour

Definitions

  1. Intense dread, fright, or fear.

    • The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.
    • "How thinkest thou that I rule this people? I have but a regiment of guards to do my bidding, therefore it is not by force. It is by terror. My empire is of the imagination."

  2. The action or quality of causing dread

    The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

  3. Something or someone that causes such fear.

    • The terrors of the storm
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Terrorism.

      • a terror attack
      • the War on Terror

    2. A night terror.

    3. A strict teacher who fails most of the students.

      • I have a terror math teacher.

    4. The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

    5. Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.

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Derived

agroterror, antiterror, balance of terror, bioterror, counterterror, cyberterror, ecoterror, holy terror, megaterror, narcoterror, night terror, nonterror, pterror, red terror, Reign of Terror, saffron terror, sleep terror, stochastic terror, terrification, terror bird, terrorbomb, terror bomb, terror-bomb, terror-bombing, terror bombing, terror cell, terrorcore, terrorful, terrorise, terrorism, terrorist, terroristic, terrorize, terrorized, terrorless, terrorsome, terrorsploitation, terrorstricken, terror-stricken, terrorstruck · +2 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at terror. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at terror. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at terror

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA