horrors
Britishplural noun
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slang a fit of depression or anxiety
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informal See delirium tremens
interjection
Example Sentences
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The guillotine blade that was allegedly used comes from the Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors, by descent from the family of Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, whose son Henri may have pulled the lever.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 8, 2026
Pitkin joins a traveling circus, the Chamber of American Horrors.
From Salon • May 17, 2025
Carnivorous plants have long captured popular imagination, portrayed to exaggeration in cult classics such as The Addams Family and Little Shop of Horrors as meat-eating monsters.
From National Geographic • Feb. 5, 2024
A House of Mirrors might have been preferable to the House of Horrors the Kraken found themselves wandering through just four minutes into this Bell Centre contest.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023
Horrors lurked in the primeval forest, not nymphs and naiads.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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