horrors

noun

1. 1

   An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

2. 2

   Something horrible; that which excites horror.

   “I saw many horrors during the war.”

3. 3

   Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

4. 4

   A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

5. 5

   An individual work in this genre.

6. 6

   A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

   “The neighbour's kids are a pack of little horrors!”

7. 7

   An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.

8. 8

   (plural) Delirium tremens.