Definitions
something that inspires horror; something horrible
Word origin
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native Old English ōga.
Used in a sentence
“Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.”
“I saw many horrors during the war.”
“Could there be stories with more horror than these?”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fear or frightening genre”6 letters
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