Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - horror
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Horror
horror
(horrors) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Horror is a feeling of great shock, fear, and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant. As I watched in horror the boat began to power away from me. = terror N-UNCOUNT 2. If you have a horror of something, you are afraid of it or dislike it very much. ...his horror of death. N-SING: N of n 3. The horror of something, especially something that hurts people, is its very great unpleasantness. ...the horror of this most bloody of civil wars. N-SING: oft N of n 4. You can refer to extremely unpleasant or frightening experiences as horrors. Can you possibly imagine all the horrors we have undergone since I last wrote you? N-COUNT: usu pl 5. A horror film or story is intended to be very frightening. ...a psychological horror film. ADJ: ADJ n 6. You can refer to an account of a very unpleasant experience or event as a horror story. ...a horror story about lost luggage while flying. ADJ: ADJ n
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English horrour, from Anglo-French *orur, from Latin ~ action of bristling, from horrere to bristle, shiver; akin to Sanskrit har?ate he is excited Date: 14th century 1. a. painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay astonishment giving place to ~ on the faces of the people about me — H. G. Wells b. intense aversion or repugnance 2. a. the quality of inspiring ~ ; repulsive, horrible, or dismal quality or character contemplating the ~ of their lives — Liam O'Flaherty b. something that inspires ~ 3. plural a state of extreme depression or apprehension II. adjective Date: 1936 calculated to inspire feelings of dread or ~ ; bloodcurdling a ~ movie ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 a painful feeling of loathing and fear. 2 a (often foll. by of) intense dislike. b (often foll. by at) colloq. intense dismay. 3 a a person or thing causing horror. b colloq. a bad or mischievous person etc. 4 (in pl.; prec. by the) a fit of horror, depression, or nervousness, esp. as in delirium tremens. 5 a terrified and revolted shuddering. 6 (in pl.) an exclamation of dismay. --attrib. adj. (of literature, films, etc.) designed to attract by arousing pleasurable feelings of horror. Phrases and idioms Chamber of Horrors a place full of horrors (orig. a room of criminals etc. in Madame Tussaud's waxworks). horror-struck (or -stricken) horrified, shocked. Etymology: ME f. OF (h)orrour f. L horror -oris (as HORRID) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. отвращение (и страх), ужас; омерзение horror film —- фильм ужасов to have a horror of smth. —- с отвращением относиться к чему-л to be filled with horror at the sight of smth. —- быть в ужасе при виде чего-л to be in horror of darkness —- панически бояться темноты screams of horror —- кники ужаса to my unspeakable horror —- к моему неописуемому ужасу paralyzed with horror —- оцепеневший от ужаса that little girl has a horror of snakes and spiders —- эта девочка до смерти боится змей и пауков they have a horror of war —- они ненавидят войну a good housewife has a horror of dirt —- хорошая хозяйка не выносит грязи 2. ужасы; ужасные трагические события horrors of war —- ужасы войны the papers are full of horrors of every sort —- газеты полны всяких ужасов chamber of horrors —- палата ужасов (музей восковых фигур со сценами убийств) 3. разг. ужас, что-л нелепое, уродливое, смешное, неприятное he is a perfect horror —- он просто ужасный человек that child is a little horror —- не ребенок, а сущее наказание this hat ias a horror —- не шляпа. просто кошмар 4. разг. подавленное настроение; приступ страха the idea gives me the horrors —- от этой мысли меня в дрожь бросает 5. белая горячка; пьяный бред 6. уст. дрожь, озноб, мурашки (особ. как симптом болезни) 7. шершавость; взъерошенность ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) ужас the horrors of war - ужасы войны 2) отвращение (of) 3) coll. что-л. нелепое, смешное he is a perfect horror! - он нелепейшее существо! 4) attr. a horror film (novel) - фильм (роман) ужасов - the horrors Syn: see fear ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a strong feeling of shock and fear (The crowd gasped in horror as Senna's car crashed. | to sb's horror (=making someone shocked or afraid)) (To her horror, Rachel realized her savings account had been cleaned out.) 2 something that is very terrible, shocking, or frightening (the horrors of modern warfare) 3 have a horror of to be very frightened of something or dislike it very much (He has a horror of snakes.) 4 give sb the horrors to make someone feel unreasonably frightened or nervous 5 little horror especially BrE a young child who behaves badly 6 something that is extremely ugly ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- early 14c., from O.Fr. horreur, from L. horror, from horrere "to bristle with fear, shudder." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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