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TERROR
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terror substantiv
1. spaimă, groază.
2. teroare.
3. persoană sau lucru care inspiră groază, teamă; (fam.) om insuportabil, dificil, dur, sever; copil neastâmpărat, diavol împieliţat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me, was well enough known to some there and carried a great weight of terror.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
He caught sight of White Fang and terror rushed into his face.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Nothing happened the next day, or the next, to weaken her terrors.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Her voice was lost; and she sat down, waiting in great terror till Harriet should answer.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
In short, I would have done anything in an honourable way rather than give Mrs. Crupp offence; and she was the terror of my life.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The old unnamable terror mounted into her eyes.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
Sometimes I am positively in terror of him, when he talks in that free and easy way of the things he has done—as if they did not matter.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
She says nothing, but I can see terror in her eyes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had come out from the house, and I noticed that her worn face—on which some past terror seemed to have left its shadow—hardened into stern lines as she looked at my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)