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hor·ror
[hawr-er, hor-] Show IPA
noun
1.
an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
2.
anything that causes such a feeling: killing, looting, and other horrors of war.
3.
such a feeling as a quality or condition: to have known the horror of slow starvation.
4.
a strong aversion; abhorrence: to have a horror of emotional outbursts.
5.
Informal. something considered bad or tasteless: That wallpaper is a horror. The party was a horror.
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Did they actually write, "to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror"...