noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a scream of pain/terror/agony
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My screams of terror awoke my parents.
numb with shock/fear/terror etc
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I just sat there, numb with fear.
scream in terror/agony etc
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He screamed in fear and panic, and banged frantically on the door.
spread terror/panic
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The murders were clearly intended to spread terror.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
holy
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The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror .
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He's got holy terror written all over his face, and his eyes are bursting with pure demon.
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I went to him when I was 15, and he was a holy terror .
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As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror .
pure
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This caused a frisson of pure terror , but Hamilton was not to be denied.
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Sometimes you have a feeling of pure , undiluted terror .
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It was a single scream of pure terror .
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But my sympathy was lost in a wave of pure terror .
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From her throat came a sound of pure terror .
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Nevertheless, these works were extremely popular in their day and are still excellent examples of pure terror and suspense.
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A blindfold was put on, she said, and remained in place throughout 36 hours of pure terror .
sheer
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This time, if nothing else, his sheer choking terror would block his throat and kill him.
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Her smooth tongue, gleaming, lolled. Sheer terror shadowed her indented eyes, and yet never would she be caught.
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Elizabeth: One of sheer terror .
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The shoes spoke of moments of sheer terror .
■ NOUN
attack
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The reactor is on a list of more than 100 possible terror attack scenarios for which security forces have been planning.
campaign
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Over five months in 1991 the group mounted a terror campaign across three counties.
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They were simply swept up in a mindless terror campaign .
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The terror campaign induced in the government something approaching panic.
group
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Meanwhile, Belfast is bracing itself for a vicious war between rival republican terror groups over drugs.
tactic
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The economic blockade is accompanied by terror tactics .
■ VERB
bring
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However, the war also brought collective terror with it.
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In the next few hours, seven more attacks brought terror to villages and towns across Kashmir.
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For me, the daybreak brings new terrors .
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Fence demand: Vandals have brought terror to a public walkway in Loftus.
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The misleading ordinariness and eerie implacability of the flesh-eaters bring the terror much closer to home.
feel
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Inside, we feel the terror of dusk begin.
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For a few moments he felt something approaching terror .
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Looking up into Joe's face, Michael felt a moment of terror at what he had to do.
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Psyche, aghast, felt terror flooding her heart instead of love.
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But Agnes felt the terror rising around her.
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In the presence of my inability to keep still he should have felt only terror .
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He felt terror , and relief, and perplexity, and a consequent inability to plan anything.
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Instantly, John felt the old terrors rise up again, all the ugly possibilities.
fill
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But it was something else that filled us with terror .
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We hear about it later, and far from being sophisticated, we are filled with terror .
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It filled his enemies with terror and his own troops with unshakeable faith and unquenchable blood lust.
flee
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Its people flee in terror on tractors, horse-drawn carts, cars or on foot.
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Instead, we imprisoned thousands of skilled people, and thousands more fled in terror .
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There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return.
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They fled in terror back across the frontier.
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A violent and sudden earthquake is said to have toppled a nearby hill, causing the torturers to flee in terror .
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After entering the cave, Hawk senses such awesome power that he flees in terror .
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But the government, in pursuit of high-minded ideals, has created a bureaucratic monster before which small business-people flee in terror .
freeze
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Isabel stared into muddy brown eyes, frozen with terror herself.
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Her face would freeze in terror , and she would cry uncontrollably for up to a half-hour.
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The stairs creaked behind us and we froze in terror .
hold
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Heaven and Hell not only hold no terrors or promises for them - they no longer even exist as figures of speech.
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The sun followed me wherever I went, for me the night held no terror .
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For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong.
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I tried walking but was held by a terror of turning the corner.
live
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Doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals live in terror of their clients.
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A lot women and children live in terror of this kind of domestic situation.
scream
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Paul screamed , his terror bursting out of him.
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He tried to scream , but his terror was such that only soundless air came out.
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A woman wept quietly, while a child at her side screamed in terror .
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But just as he put the rope over his head, he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head.
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Horses reared high and screamed their terror , men, open-mouthed, fell from their saddles.
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Lying there on the floor, cords biting into wrists and ankles, they heard Maureen screaming with terror and agony.
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According to the only survivor, his comrades went under one by one, screaming in terror .
strike
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The Slav opposition collapsed almost immediately, as if the very name of Charles had struck terror into their hearts.
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This is why my sister possesses the capacity to strike terror in me, I think.
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Those two little hyphenated words struck terror in the heart of some one eager for a weekend of yoga classes and silent breakfasts.
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Every crisis would strike terror into the hearts of people everywhere.
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Might strike terror into the opponent in a friendly kick about.
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The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
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The news that Esau is coming at speed, and with a force, strikes terror into Jacob.
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The man whose very name struck terror in the hearts of managing directors?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a holy terror
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As soon as my father was out of the way she became a holy terror.
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I went to him when I was 15, and he was a holy terror.
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The prosecutors and defense lawyers regarded Kovitsky as a holy terror.
be frozen with fear/terror/fright
be seized with/by terror/desire etc
be struck with horror/terror/awe etc
mortal fear/dread/terror
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She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence.
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The crew is in mortal terror.
reign of terror
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The invasion ended the four-year-long reign of terror.
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He led a reign of terror until his conversion to Catholicism in 989.
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He was, simultaneously, a loving father and sensitive poet and a ruthless dictator who presided over a reign of terror.
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Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle, but it ended Seiguard's reign of terror, permanently.
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One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror.
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Some reformists suggest it was part of a proposed reign of terror.
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The 53-year-old railway worker abused his stepdaughter and two step-granddaughters in a 12-year reign of terror.
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The Grantley Ripper looked set for a long reign of terror.
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The team is based in a local government building, bugged during Ceaucescu's reign of terror.
strike terror/fear into sb's heart
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Believe me, all those cannon, mortars and volley guns should strike fear into the heart of the enemy.
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Every crisis would strike terror into the hearts of people everywhere.
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Nothing here to strike fear into the hearts of the people.
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The Slav opposition collapsed almost immediately, as if the very name of Charles had struck terror into their hearts.
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The very physical description of the Huns proved sufficient in and of itself to strike terror into the hearts of their enemies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Terror -stricken refugees fled across the border.
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A feeling of terror gripped us as we listened to his story.
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Denver burst from the room, terror in her eyes.
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He barely survived the terror of the river rapids.
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I will never forget the look of sheer terror on her face.
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Shots were fired, and the children fled in terror .
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The men on the quivering, battered boat were mad with terror .
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The resistance movement started a campaign of terror .
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Their faces were white, and their eyes were filled with terror .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they saw this wonder each looked in terror at the other, and dropping their eyes they prayed silently.
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Her eyes fixed themselves in terror on the door.
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On the high hilltop in the darkness Psyche sat, waiting for she knew not what terror .
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Sometimes you have a feeling of pure, undiluted terror .
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The terror , if not the actuality, of the disease has survived into our own time.
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There was an expression of frozen terror on Emilia's face.
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Trapped between twin terrors, he allowed his body to sink within the folds of jackets and overcoats.