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If you refer to someone or something as a h_____, you mean that you think they are very unpleasant or ugly .If you refer to someone or something as a horror, you mean that you think they are very unpleasant or ugly .
I didn't want to listen. I was a horror. He did well to put up with me.
word horror
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noun
Horror is a feeling of great shock, fear, and worry caused by something extremely unpleasant .
I felt numb with horror.
As I watched in horror the boat began to power away from me.
If you have a horror of something, you are afraid of it or dislike it very much.
...his horror of death.
The horror of something, especially something that hurts people, is its very great unpleasantness.
...the horror of this most bloody of civil wars.
You can refer to extremely unpleasant or frightening experiences as horrors .
Can you possibly imagine all the horrors we have undergone since I last wrote you?
If you refer to someone or something as a horror, you mean that you think they are very unpleasant or ugly .
I didn't want to listen. I was a horror. He did well to put up with me.
adjective
A horror film or story is intended to be very frightening.
...a psychological horror film.
You can refer to an account of a very unpleasant experience or event as a horror story.
...a horror story about lost luggage while flying.
inflections horrors
cefr-level B1

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