English-Italian translations for horror

• orrore
  Sappiamo tutti dove conduce: all’abisso e all’orrore. We all know where it leads: to the abyss and to horror.
  Srebrenica è assurta a simbolo dell'orrore e del cordoglio inconsolabile. Srebrenica stands as a symbol of horror and inconsolable grief.
  Talvolta il pacifismo è l’anticamera dell’orrore. Sometimes, pacifism paves the way for horror.

Definition of horror

• An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance
• Something horrible; that which excites horror
• Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence
• A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense
• An individual work in this genre
• A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror
• An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often '''the horrors'''

Examples

• I saw many horrors during the war.
• The neighbours kids are a pack of little horrors!

Related words

• horror-struck
• horror film
• horror story
• horror movie
• horror vacui
• horror punk
• horror scenario
• survival horror