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Definition of Terror
Terror

Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.

That which excites dread; a cause of extreme fear.

Related Definitions:
And, Body, Cause, Dread, Extreme, Fear, Fright, Mind, Of, That, Violent, Which


Terror Quotations

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.
George W. Bush

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush

Terror Translations

terror in Dutch is terreur, schrikbewind
terror in Finnish is kauhu
terror in French is terreur, effroi
terror in German is Schrecken
terror in Latin is formidilosus, terror
terror in Spanish is terror


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