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(adj)
Fearful, terrible.
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Very unpleasant; disagreeable.
(n)
A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
Frightening; causing fear.
Causing horror; horrifying.
frightening, especially in appearance.
Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.
(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
the state of being apprehensive
(US, neologism, politics, social media) Initialism of affluent white female urban liberal.
A surname.
Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.
Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.
Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
A cause of terror or alarm; a panic; something that inspires fear or dread.
Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.
(countable, uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Anxiety over the uncertain future or possible ill-occurrence.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety.
An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
Extreme pain.
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
A lack of confidence in oneself.
Emotion; impression.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
A sense of evil to come.
A place of safety or refuge.
A sweet, chewy, generally vanilla-flavoured and chocolate-free baked good: a blond-colored brownie.
A feeling of amazement.
(v)
(intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.
Trouble; misery; a feeling of disquiet or concern.
Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warning sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger.
(uncountable) Overwhelming fear or fright, often affecting groups of people or animals; (countable) an instance of this; a fright, a scare.
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated.
A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread
An irrational, abnormal, or obsessive fear (of something).
(transitive) To bring about or fill with fear or dread; make dreaded or dreadful.
(uncountable, countable) Disbelief or uncertainty (about something); (countable) a particular instance of such disbelief or uncertainty.
Hatred.
To frighten greatly; to fill with terror.
(transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be in dread of.
(transitive) To dislike (someone or something) intensely; to loathe.
(intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
(idiomatic) To cause someone to fear abjectly in other contexts; to terrify completely.
(transitive, colloquial) To dislike strongly.
(transitive) To feel loathing for; to abhor.
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
(transitive) To take hold of (something) with understanding; to conceive (something) in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand.
(transitive) To condemn; to express strong disapproval of.
(uncountable) A feeling of contempt or scorn.
Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of terrorize. [To fill (someone) with terror; to terrify.]
(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
To regard with contempt or scorn.
(archaic) Great fear, terror, fright.
An act of revolting.
(transitive) To express disapproval of, protest or plead against.
A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
(transitive) To detest, hate, or revile (someone or something).
(transitive) To damn or curse.
(transitive, obsolete) To defy.
(archaic) To frighten.
(transitive) To fill with fright; make afraid; scare; frighten
To ruin many or all things over a large area, such as most or all buildings of a city, or cities of a region, or trees of a forest.
A surname from Middle English.
An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
(transitive) To fill with horror or indignation; to dismay.
(transitive) To oppress, persecute, or subjugate.
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
(obsolete) To awaken, arouse.
(transitive, rare) Render dolorous; cause to be tormented by grief; aggrieve to profound sorrow.
(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.
(idiomatic, uncommon) Alternative form of put the fear of God into. [To cause someone to repent through fear of the wrath of God.]
(transitive) To fill with fright; scare all over; scare completely; terrify.
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
An undesirable fate; an impending severe occurrence or danger that seems inevitable.
To be expected to cause the destruction of. [with for]
A permanent mark on the skin, sometimes caused by the healing of a wound.
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fright; a scare.
(countable) A noisy commotion, especially resulting from fighting; a brawl, a fight; also, a loud quarrel.
(transitive, obsolete) To dismay.
(transitive, obsolete) To tread down; tread underfoot; trample upon; crush; destroy by trampling.
(transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
(obsolete) To devastate.
(transitive) To moan or complain about (something).
An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see do, for.
(transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb.