Thesaurus: horror

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1. n. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
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.
3. n. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
4. n. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
5. n. intense and profound fear
6. n. something that inspires horror; something horrible
7. n. intense aversion
8. n:100 n. intense and profound fear n. something that inspires dislike; something horrible