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Definition of "terror-struck" [terror-struck]

  • Struck or filled with terror (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "terror-struck" in a sentence
  • "A nervous economy and terror-struck populace was going to need serious convincing if some states were to be retained/won."
  • "In this bitterly divided, terror-struck United States, General Abigail Rhodes takes on the thankless job of heading up the Department of Homeland Security."
  • "Presently we heard a terrible great cry like the loud-pealing thunder, whereat we were terror-struck and became as dead men, giving ourselves up for lost."