terror.
2. m. person or thing that produces terror. U t in sent. fest. Young was the terror of the girls in the neighborhood.
3. m. by antonom. Expeditious method of Justice revolutionary and counter-revolutionary.
4. m. by antonom. Time, during the French Revolution, in which this method was common.
ORTOGR. ESCR. with may. initial.
1. loc. adj. said of a cinematic or literary work and the genre to which they belong: seeking to cause fear or anxiety in the viewer or reader.