Definitions
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- adjective struck or filled with terror
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Examples
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A nervous economy and terror-struck populace was going to need serious convincing if some states were to be retained/won.
Meenakshi Ravi: Saving Indian Secularism from Divide and Rule Politics 2008
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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.
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In this bitterly divided, terror-struck United States, General Abigail Rhodes takes on the thankless job of heading up the Department of Homeland Security.
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In this bitterly divided, terror-struck United States, General Abigail Rhodes takes on the thankless job of heading up the Department of Homeland Security.
August 2006 2006
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The students were called into an assembly, and when the administrators announced that there had been a crash at the Pentagon, Portia's friends all turned and looked at her, terror-struck.
Washington's Heroes 2007
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I guess adrenaline-flooded and terror-struck have a passing resemblance to bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
The Quickie Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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In 2002, terror-struck married women with children supported Republicans over Democrats by a 17-point margin (53 percent to 36 percent).
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Security Moms to Bush: We're Just Not that Into You Anymore 2006
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In 2002, terror-struck married women with children supported Republicans over Democrats by a 17-point margin (53 percent to 36 percent).
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Security Moms to Bush: We're Just Not that Into You Anymore 2006
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Abruptly I slipped out my revolver, aimed between its terror-struck eyes, and fired.
The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006
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The moon's face is not whiter than yours at this moment; and the aspen at the gate does not tremble more than your busy fingers; and so tractable and terror-struck, and dismayed and devoted, you would follow me into the thick of real danger!
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