Usually means: Overwhelmed by intense, paralyzing fear.
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  1. terror-stricken: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. terror-stricken, terror-stricken: Collins English Dictionary
  3. terror-stricken: Vocabulary.com
  4. Terror-stricken, terror-stricken: Wordnik
  5. terror-stricken: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. terror-stricken: Wiktionary
  7. terror-stricken: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. terror-stricken: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. terror-stricken: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. terror-stricken: Dictionary.com
  11. terror-stricken: Rhymezone
  12. terror-stricken: FreeDictionary.org
  13. terror-stricken: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. terror-stricken: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  alternative form of terrorstricken [Stricken with terror; utterly terrified.]

Similar:
afraid, terror-struck, panicstricken, horrorstruck, wartorn, shellshocked, bombed-out, scandalised, shell shocked, bestrought, more...

Opposite:
calm, composed, unafraid, fearless, brave

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Similar:
afraid, terror-struck, panicstricken, horrorstruck, wartorn, shellshocked, bombed-out, scandalised, shell shocked, bestrought, more...

Opposite:
calm, composed, unafraid, fearless, brave



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