"horror" Definition

Definitions for the word "horror" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 painful feeling of loathing and fear. 2 a (often foll. By of) intense dislike. B (often foll. By at) colloq. Intense dismay. 3 a person or thing causing horror. B colloq. Bad or mischievous person etc. 4 (in pl.; prec. By the) fit of depression, nervousness, etc. attrib. Adj. (of films etc.) Designed to interest by arousing feelings of horror.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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