Noun: terror tehr-ur or te-rur [N. Amer], te-ru(r) [Brit]
- An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
"The sudden noise filled them with terror";
- panic, affright
- The use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
"he used terror to make them confess"
- A person who inspires fear or dread
"he was the terror of the neighbourhood";
- scourge, threat
- A very troublesome child
"The babysitter struggled to control the little terror";
- brat, little terror [informal], holy terror [informal]
Derived forms: terrors
Type of: actor, coercion, doer, fear, fearfulness, fright, imp, monkey, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag [N. Amer], scallawag, scallywag, scamp [informal], worker
Encyclopedia: Terror, Inc