horrors

/ (ˈhɒrəz) /


pl n
  1. slang a fit of depression or anxiety

  2. informal See delirium tremens

interjection
  1. an expression of dismay, sometimes facetious

Words Nearby horrors

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How to use horrors in a sentence

  • I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

    God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
  • She had seen little of the tragedy enacted in Meerut; she knew less of its real horrors.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy
  • We never see such horrors now; and I actually envied Pit Town the possession of that picture.

  • To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.

    God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
  • At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison