terror

About 12.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Intense dread, fright, or fear.
2. noun The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
3. noun Something or someone that causes such fear.
4. noun Terrorism.

   a terror attack

5. noun A night terror.
6. adjective A strict teacher who fails most of the students.

   I have a terror math teacher.

Similar words

holy terror threat scourge brat panic little terror horror scary fear terrorise

Often followed by

of and in to that into was at as

Word family

terrorless terrors