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   Terror , n. [L. terror, akin to terrere to frighten, for tersere; akin to Gr.  to flee away, dread, Skr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to shake: cf. F. terreur. Cf. Deter.]
   Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.
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   Terror seized the rebel host.
   Milton.
   
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   That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
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   Those enormous terrors of the Nile.
   Prior.
   
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   Rulers are not a terror to good works.
   Rom. xiii. 3.
   
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   There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.
   Shak.
   
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   ☞ Terror is used in the formation of compounds which are generally self-explaining: as, terror-fraught, terror-giving, terror-smitten, terror-stricken, terror-struck, and the like.
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   King of terrors, death. Job xviii. 14. -- Reign of Terror. (French Hist.) See in Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
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   Syn. -- Alarm; fright; consternation; dread; dismay. See Alarm.
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