terror

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who inspires fear or dread

   The dealer was the terror of the neighborhood.

2. 2
   noun

   the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people, especially for political reasons

   The police used terror to make them confess.

3. 3
   noun

   Intense dread, fright, or fear.

   The terrors with which I was seized […] were extreme.

4. 4
   noun

   Something or someone that causes such fear.

   The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

5. 5
   noun

   Terrorism.

   a terror attack

6. 6
   adj

   A strict teacher who fails most of the students.

   I have a terror math teacher.

7. 7
   noun

   an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

8. 8
   noun

   a very troublesome child

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 m (“fright, fear, terror”), from terrēre (“to frighten, terrify”), from Old Latin tr̥reō, from Proto-Italic *trozeō, from Proto-Indo-…