Usually means: Intense fear of imminent threat.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. terror: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. terror: Merriam-Webster
  3. terror, the Terror: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. terror: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. terror: Collins English Dictionary
  6. terror: Vocabulary.com
  7. Terror, terror: Wordnik
  8. terror: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. terror: Wiktionary
  10. terror: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. terror: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. terror: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. terror: Dictionary.com
  14. terror: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. terror: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Terror (Bottom), Terror (DC Comics), Terror (Marvel Comics), Terror (album), Terror (band), Terror (boat), Terror (disambiguation), Terror (politics), Terror, The Terror (TV series), The Terror (album), The Terror (disambiguation), The Terror (novel), The Terror (play), The Terror (season The+Terror+++(season+++1)), The Terror (series), The Terror, The terror: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Terror: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. terror: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. terror: Rhymezone
  20. terror: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. terror: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. terror: FreeDictionary.org
  23. terror: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. terror: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. terror: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. terror: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. The Terror (disambiguation), The Terror, terror: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Terror, terror: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The Terror (disambiguation), terror: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. terror: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Terror: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See terrorless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Terror)

noun:  (countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
noun:  (uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
noun:  (countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
noun:  (uncountable) Terrorism.
noun:  (pathology, countable) A night terror.
noun:  (Philippines, slang) A strict teacher that fails most of the students.
noun:  (politics, history, usually with the) The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
noun:  (politics, history, usually with the) Any specific one of several historical reigns of terror.

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