terror
terror ; horror.
The idea was exquisite but full of terror.
In recent years, then, there has been much less scaremongering about the imagined horrors of drowning in a sea of paper.
campaña de terror
terror campaign
The army's terror campaigns devastated the Nicaraguan infrastructure & provoked international outrage.
dar terror
scare + the living daylights out of
make + Nombre + cringe
Alfred Hitchcock dedicated himself to scaring the living daylights out of people with an oeuvre of taut, well-crafted mystery-thrillers.
She said that her ex took so much out of her that she's not ready for a boyfriend; the thought of a relationship makes her cringe.
encogerse de terror [Intentar pasar desapercibido por temor o por falta de personalidad]
cringe
cower
cringe with + fear
That Dennis! When I think of him, I... well ... to put it frankly, cringe.
The stereotype of a librarian i a 'fussy old woman of either sex, myopic and repressed, brandishing or perhaps cowering behind a date-stamp and surrounded by an array of notices which forbid virtually every human activity'.
With his eerie green eyes and ferocious and deadly fangs and claws you just cringe with fear every time the big cat comes on the screen.
llenar de terror
terrorise [terrorize, -USA]
terrify
Only majorities have the power to terrorize and subjugate minority groups.
The purpose of terrorism is to terrify.
novela de terror
terror novel
horror story
Gericault's paintings of severed heads and limbs explored the taste for the macabre and uncanny rampant in the popular terror novels of his time.
This article discusses briefly the influence of the cinema on children's horror stories.
película de terror
horror movie
horror film
The author examines the postmodern violent horror movie, the splatter film.
Marshall grew up in England watching oaters and horror films in equal measure and dreamed of combining the genres.
régimen de terror
reign of terror
I think a lot of Republicans want to cooperate, but they're in the thralls of this reign of terror from the far right that has dragged the party to the right.
