HORROR
\hˈɒɹə], \hˈɒɹə], \h_ˈɒ_ɹ_ə]\
Definitions of HORROR
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
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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.
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A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
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That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
By Oddity Software
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A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
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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.
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A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
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That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
By Noah Webster.
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Excessive fear accompanied with shuddering; extreme dread; great disgust; that which fills with dread or terror; as, the horror of a great crime.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Robley Dunglison
