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Sentences 
- (countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- (countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- (countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- (uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- (countable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- (colloquial, countable) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- (countable, informal, uncountable) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (countable, in-plural, informal, uncountable) Delirium tremens.
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhɒɹ.ə/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
Related words
surprisal
bad dream
evil spirit
becoming desolate
becoming wild
mazement
horror
horreur
orrore
Schrecken
afgrijzen
horror
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