Horrornoun
An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
Revulsionnoun
Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
Horrornoun
(countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
Revulsionnoun
A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
Horrornoun
(uncountable) A genre of fiction meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
Revulsionnoun
(medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
Horrornoun
Something horrible; that which excites horror.
‘I saw many horrors during the war.’;
Revulsionnoun
(obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
Horrornoun
(colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
‘The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!’;
Revulsionnoun
(obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
Horrornoun
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
Revulsionnoun
A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
Horrornoun
A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
‘Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.’;
Revulsionnoun
A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; - applied to the feelings.
‘A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.’;
Horrornoun
A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
Revulsionnoun
The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.
Horrornoun
A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
‘How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?’;
Revulsionnoun
intense aversion
Horrornoun
That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
‘Breathes a browner horror on the woods.’;
Horrornoun
intense and profound fear
Horrornoun
something that inspires horror; something horrible;
‘the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him’;
Horrornoun
intense aversion
