Horror

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1. Noun

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

2. Noun

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.

3. Noun

A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

4. Noun

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

5. Noun

intense aversion
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone

6. Noun

intense and profound fear
Vocabulary classified under Emotion and tone
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