The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word HORROR
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More clues leading to the result HORROR
- Hard men yell expressing a fear
- Fear of God doesn’t begin with rhyme or reason originally
- Revulsion of empty hangar filled with gold, ornate ring tops
- Fear time is short to obtain glasses to accommodate bishop
- Fear of unlimited pain stopping workforce
- Swordsman to be beheaded in hour? A dreadful prospect
- Price was paid for this tearaway?
- Heads of Hard Recruiters hiring men back to back results in dismay
- ‘Preach to choir!’ minister to roar, ultimately in shock
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What does HORROR mean?
HORROR noun- An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.
- Something horrible; that which excites horror.
- Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
- A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
- An individual work in this genre.
- A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.
- An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.
- (plural) Delirium tremens.