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1. An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
   - panic, affright
    
2. A person who inspires fear or dread
   "he was the terror of the neighbourhood";
   - scourge, threat
    
3. A very troublesome child
   - brat, little terror [informal], holy terror [informal]
    
4. The use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons)
   "he used terror to make them confess"

Derived forms: terrors

Type of: coercion, fear, fearfulness, fright, imp, individual, monkey, mortal, person, rapscallion, rascal, scalawag, scallywag, scamp [informal], somebody, someone, soul

Encyclopedia: Terror, Inc