Word Meanings - FRIGHTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fear; terror.

TERRORLESS
Free from terror. Poe.
TERRORIZE
To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
TERRORISM
The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation. Jefferson.
TERROR
tersere; akin to Gr. tras to tremble, to be afraid, Russ. triasti to 1. Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright. Terror seized the rebel host. Milton. 2. That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.
TERRORIST
One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, an agent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign of Terror in France. Burke.
NIGHT TERRORS
A sudden awkening associated with a sensation of terror, occurring in children, esp. those of unstable nervous constitution.