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terror

/ter-er/US // ˈtɛr ər //UK // (ˈtɛrə) //

恐怖,恐惧,恐怖事件,恐怖袭击

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
    • : an instance or cause of intense fear or anxiety; quality of causing terror: to be a terror to evildoers.
    • : any period of frightful violence or bloodshed likened to the Reign of Terror in France.
    • : violence or threats of violence used for intimidation or coercion; terrorism.
    • : Informal. a person or thing that is especially annoying or unpleasant.

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Examples

  • When asked if the terror plot had an impact on the company’s recent spate of surprising policy changes, Facebook did not provide a direct response.

  • On the other hand, the levels of fear are increasing due to the social effects and the messages of terror that this type of violence instills in the entire community.

  • I tried to determine the relationship between politicians using hate speech and the number of domestic terror attacks the country experienced the following year.

  • It’s been almost three months since an independent group of United Nations experts called on the US government to conduct an independent investigation into racial terror.

  • Deep cultural memory entangles wolves and wilderness in all their terror and majesty.

  • And that is an awful lot less bloody than what happened during the Reign of Terror.

  • The Sputnik shapes seem like a nod to Cold War surveillance morphing into Age of Terror surveillance.

  • Yet his liberal voice was too often silenced on War on Terror issues.

  • “They should go and join [the] Anti-Terror Operation,” she said.

  • Oddly enough, it was initially conceived as a weapon for the Global War on Terror.

  • Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.

  • Terror and fascination caught him; he turned away lest she should reach his secret and communicate her own.

  • But France had had enough of the Terror, and knew that she could evolve her safety by other means than that of the guillotine.

  • Before very long the prisoners knew that, in spite of the Terror, some powerful hand was extended over them.

  • Terror has been and always will be the most certain means of corrupting and enslaving the mind of man.

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