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horror

/hawr-er, hor-/US // ˈhɔr ər, ˈhɒr- //UK // (ˈhɒrə) //

恐怖,恐惧,惊恐,恐怖事件

Related Words

dismay惊愕,惊恐,惊恐不安,错愕consternation惊愕,惊慌失措,惊恐,忧虑fright惊恐,惊吓,吓人,恐惧apprehension忧虑,顾虑,担忧,担心dread畏惧,害怕,可怕的,恐惧disgust厌恶,恶心,嫌弃,讨厌terror恐怖,恐惧,恐怖事件,恐怖袭击awe敬畏,威严,使人敬畏,威风凛凛panic惊慌失措,恐慌,惊恐,惊慌hatred仇恨,憎恨,憎恶,恨意abhorrence憎恶,憎恨,厌恶,可憎repugnance厌恶,反感,厌恶感,厌恶情绪hate仇恨,讨厌,憎恨,恨alarm警报,报警,惊动,闹钟antipathy反感,反心,反感度,反对abomination憎恶,憎恨,可憎的,可憎的事trepidation兢兢业业,惶恐不安,畏惧,惶恐aversion厌恶,厌恶感,厌恶情绪,厌烦detestation憎恨,憎恶,厌恶,厌恶感monstrosity怪胎,怪兽,鬼怪,怪异

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
    • : anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
    • : such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
    • : a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
    • : Informal. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
    • : horrors, Informal. delirium tremens. extreme depression.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inspiring or creating horror, loathing, aversion, etc.: The hostages told horror stories of their year in captivity.
    • : centered upon or depicting terrifying or macabre events: a horror movie.
interj.感叹词 interjection
  1. 1
    • : horrors,

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfear, revulsion
Forms: horrors
Synonyms
apprehension忧虑,顾虑,担忧,担心awe敬畏,威严,使人敬畏,威风凛凛consternation惊愕,惊慌失措,惊恐,忧虑disgust厌恶,恶心,嫌弃,讨厌dismay惊愕,惊恐,惊恐不安,错愕dread畏惧,害怕,可怕的,恐惧fright惊恐,惊吓,吓人,恐惧hatred仇恨,憎恨,憎恶,恨意panic惊慌失措,恐慌,惊恐,惊慌terror恐怖,恐惧,恐怖事件,恐怖袭击abhorrence憎恶,憎恨,厌恶,可憎abomination憎恶,憎恨,可憎的,可憎的事alarm警报,报警,惊动,闹钟antipathy反感,反心,反感度,反对aversion厌恶,厌恶感,厌恶情绪,厌烦chiller冷水机,冷风机,制冷机,冷水机组detestation憎恨,憎恶,厌恶,厌恶感dislike不喜欢,厌恶,嫌弃,不喜欢的hate仇恨,讨厌,憎恨,恨loathing厌恶,厌恶感,憎恶,憎恨monstrosity怪胎,怪兽,鬼怪,怪异repugnance厌恶,反感,厌恶感,厌恶情绪trepidation兢兢业业,惶恐不安,畏惧,惶恐

Examples

  • Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play ghost hunters in the new Amazon Prime horror comedy Truth Seekers.

  • Liz Howard, an attorney with the nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice who worked as a senior election official in Virginia, has her own horror story to tell.

  • Tasha Zemke, copy editor I’m loving HBO’s horror series Lovecraft Country.

  • In late October, you’ll get back-to-back tastes of horror-focused streamers Screambox and Shudder.

  • If you’re like most people, you probably thought you nailed it on the first take only to listen in horror as you “umm” and “ahh” your way to the end.

  • In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.

  • “Internationally there has been a lot of horror and contempt for her actions, domestically very little,” he said.

  • All of us can readily conjure up horror scenarios by the isolated person acting badly.

  • Sabrine says that despite the private horror of what she was going through, she was too ashamed to tell her family.

  • But Kent will not let us off the familiar horror hook so easily.

  • The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.

  • But all you can think of are the horror stories about the worn out genes of Earth.

  • With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."

  • And then she thought with horror of the confidence she had made to old Mrs. Wurzel and the brewer's daughter, not an hour before.

  • She craned forward, the smile gone from her lips, a horror in her eyes, her bosom heaving.

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