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Look up: horror

  1. horror
    [n] - intense and profound fear 2. [n] - something that inspires horror
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Horror
    Hor'ror noun [ Formerly written horrour .] [ Latin horror , from horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; confer Sanskrit h...sh to bristle.] 1. A bristling up; a risin...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/62

  3. horror
    1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. 'Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.' (Chapman) ... 2. 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...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. horror
    noun something that inspires dislike; something horrible; `the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Horror
    • (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. • (n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. • (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. horror
    horror 1. A very strong feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. 2. A feeling of distress or distaste: 'She has a horror of snakes.' 3. Something that causes a very strong feeling of fear, shock, or disgust: 'The public is starting to be more aware of the horrors of war.' 4. A very unpleasant or unsightly thing.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  7. horror
    • intense and profound fear
    • intense aversion

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  8. horror
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hor′ŏr Definitions: 1. Dread; fear.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  9. horror
    Genre of fiction and film, devoted primarily to scaring the reader or audience, but often also aiming to achieve some catharsis (purging of the emotions) through exaggeration of the bizarre and grotesque. Horror fiction is difficult to distinguish from the gothic novel but horror stories do not require the gothic tale's code of morality and can...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  10. Horror
    (Garo) are fictional monsters in the Tokusatsu series `Garo`. Originally from a demon world, the Horrors appear in the human world, attracted by the darkness inside human beings that they feed on. The Horrors come in many forms; they usually come in a black-winged skeleton humanoid for...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror

  11. Horror
    (album) `Horror` is an album by Boston, Massachusetts metal band Cannae. Released in 2003, it was their second release and first on Prosthetic Records. The album was produced by "Killswitch Engage" guitarist and producer Adam Dutkiewicz. Track listing: # Synapse (2:56) # Symm...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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