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terror


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noun

1‘Ruth screamed in terror’

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extreme fear, dread, horror, fear and trembling, fright, trepidation, alarm, panic, shock
informal funk

2‘she plunged into everyday activity to save herself from the terrors of her own mind’

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demon, fiend, devil, monster
horror, nightmare

3‘he turned out to be a right little terror’

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rascal, devil, imp, monkey, wretch, scamp, mischief-maker, troublemaker
informal horror, holy terror
British informal perisher
Irish informal spalpeen
Northern English informal tyke, scally
North American informal varmint, hellion
archaic scapegrace, rapscallion