Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - horror

~ n 1 a strong feeling of shock and fear  (The crowd gasped in horror as Senna's car crashed. | to sb's horror (=making someone shocked or afraid))  (To her horror, Rachel realized her savings account had been cleaned out.) 2 something that is very terrible, shocking, or frightening  (the horrors of modern warfare) 3 have a horror of to be very frightened of something or dislike it very much  (He has a horror of snakes.) 4 give sb the horrors to make someone feel unreasonably frightened or nervous 5 little horror especially BrE a young child who behaves badly 6 something that is extremely ugly