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What does horror mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word horror? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable, uncountable) An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
  2. (countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
  3. (uncountable) A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
  4. (informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors.
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I climb aboard the train a minute or two before it pulls out of the station and find to my horror that my seat is taken.
Gorbachev understood the horror of nuclear weapons, and was resolved not to use them.
I really enjoy the scare from a great horror movie, but have to say it runs a close second place to a great comedy or romantic comedy!
It instead focuses upon the absurdist horror of one man holding back a tide of blood.
The abattoir worker's wife may be a prematurely raddled crone, but the horror she arouses is horror at the extent of her deprivation.
She did melodramas, musicals, romantic comedies, westerns, and horror films.

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