Definition of terror

"terror" in the noun sense

1. panic, terror, affright

an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety

2. terror, scourge, threat

a person who inspires fear or dread

"he was the terror of the neighborhood"

3. terror, brat, little terror, holy terror

a very troublesome child

4. terror

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

"he used terror to make them confess"

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Quotations for terror

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am armed so strong in honesty
That they pass by me as the idle wind
Which I respect not. [ Jul. Caes ]

No class escapes them - from the poor man's pay
The nostrum takes no trifling part away;
Time, too, with cash is wasted; 'tis the fate
Of real helpers, to be called too late;
This find the sick, when time and patience gone
Death with a tenfold terror hurries on. [ Crabbe ]

Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. [ Beaconsfield ]

Better an end with terror than a terror without end. [ Schill ]

Think with terror on the slow, the quiet power of time. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Better die outright than be all one's life long in terror. [ Aesop ]

A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. [ Lycurgus ]

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery. [ Schiller ]

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. [ Wieland ]

Ah, what without a heaven would be even love! - a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. [ Carlyle ]

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid of ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all kinds of treason, raised to the second power, woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. [ Amiel ]

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. [ Plutarch ]

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints. [ Pascal ]

Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]

terror in Scrabble®

The word terror is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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The word terror is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words within the letters of terror

2 letter words in terror (3 words)

3 letter words in terror (5 words)

4 letter words in terror (2 words)

5 letter words in terror (2 words)

6 letter words in terror (1 word)

terror + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving terror

Shorter words in terror

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