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as in nightmares
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness
had never experienced the horrors of war
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2
as in messes
something unpleasant to look at
are you really going to hang that horror on the wall?
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3
as in hatreds
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
cat lover or no, she regards cleaning the litter box with horror
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Recent Examples of horrors
More than a thousand miles away in New Delhi, Mohammad waits for his daughter, powerless to save her for a second time from the horrors faced by their community in Myanmar.
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Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
Hard Rock Stadium is a house of horrors for the Patriots dating back to their dynasty days.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Like many Stephen King stories, the truest horrors are the ones that exist in reality.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
But a heart-wrenching 2016 case report of a boy in Oregon detailed the horrors of what the disease can look like.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Halloween is more than a month and a half away, but the season of ghosts and horrors is upon us.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
In a world still grappling with the horrors of war and the evil men visit upon each other, Betty Bersinger became a stand-in for every American trying to normalize their lives after years of trauma.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Kelley is chastised and eventually replaced by Gustave Gilbert (Colin Hanks), a rival psychologist with a different take, one that opposes Kelley’s more humanistic approach in defining the horrors of that time.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
Hard Rock Stadium is a house of horrors for the Patriots dating back to their dynasty days.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
Like many Stephen King stories, the truest horrors are the ones that exist in reality.
—James Grebey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
But a heart-wrenching 2016 case report of a boy in Oregon detailed the horrors of what the disease can look like.
—Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
This detail, at once tragic and comic, painfully human and stupidly bureaucratic, captures something essential about Schattenfroh, an extremely dark novel about the horrors of modern European history laced with the delirious, disconcerting humor of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Halloween is more than a month and a half away, but the season of ghosts and horrors is upon us.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
In a world still grappling with the horrors of war and the evil men visit upon each other, Betty Bersinger became a stand-in for every American trying to normalize their lives after years of trauma.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Kelley is chastised and eventually replaced by Gustave Gilbert (Colin Hanks), a rival psychologist with a different take, one that opposes Kelley’s more humanistic approach in defining the horrors of that time.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrors
Noun
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Symptoms include high anxiety, avoidance of reminders of the trauma, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, frequent intrusive memories of trauma, nightmares and flashbacks.—
Arash Javanbakht,
The Conversation,
15 Sep. 2025
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Now, the nightmares come to Switch 2.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Other cuts start as pop songs before crashing into atonal messes and freak rock chaos.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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It’s equipped with strong suction to suck up small messes in tricky spots around the house and in the car.—
Isabel Garcia,
PEOPLE,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Now, a grown-up Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) faces new and familiar frights after her equally goth daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), opens a portal to the Netherworld and reawakens everyone's favorite pinstriped ghost.—
Emy LaCroix,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Haunted Scream Park opening weekend 'Tis the season for frights and delights!—
Caroline Ritzie,
The Enquirer,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Here are details and maps showing when fall foliage will begin to appear, and how to enjoy the sights this season.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Task begins by setting up the parallels between Tom and Robbie, two flawed men trying to keep their heads above the water of their own miseries, cutting back and forth between their routines to emphasize their similar ideologies and spontaneities.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Rather than taking the newcomers in, Friedrich leads them to some distant caves and trusts that the miseries of island life—extreme heat, torrential rains, pesky insects, vicious dogs—will soon send them packing.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Jam must reckon with the stories she’s been told of the past and present and discover remaining monstrosities that the adults are unable, or unwilling, to see.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Sep. 2025
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The huge shop churns out 120 trucks a month, from lifted Jeeps to the biggest monstrosities imaginable based on Land Rover Defenders, the Ram TRX, G-Wagens, Hummer EVs, and even the Lamborghini Urus super SUV.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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“Horrors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrors. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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