fear
IPA: fˈɪr
noun
- (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
- (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
- (UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
- (intransitive) To feel fear.
- (intransitive, used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (transitive) To regret.
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
- (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
- (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.
adjective
- (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
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Examples of "fear" in Sentences
- I never in all my life had so little fear of man: I had _no fear_ then.
- I fear, * fear*, that we are fast approaching a time of national revolution.
- He had only to dare; and pain and poverty and fear -- above all else _fear_ -- would end forever! ...
- I remember that I broke forth with words like theseI do not fear, my soul does not fear; and at the same time I found the strength to rise.
- In the fourth place, the feeling and principle of fear ought to enter into the experience of both youth and manhood, _because it relieves from all other fear_.
- Shall it be of that famous Saplana who runneth away to put himself in hiding; -- for fear -- _verily for fear_ -- the Commander of Famagosta! afraid to die like
- _fear, love, and obey_; and we must have the fulfilment of the first two before we can expect the latter, and it is by our philosophy of creating fear, love and confidence, that we govern to our will every kind of a horse whatever.
- And against these on the one side, and the Brother Sodoms on the other, I shall interrupt my story to put this chapter under shelter of that wise remark of the great Dr. Adam Clark, who says "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, the terror of God confounds the soul;" and that other saying of his: "With the _fear_ of
- Where one protasis is followed by another opposed in meaning, but affirmative in form, the second is introduced by sīn; as, -- hunc mihi timōrem ēripe; sī vērus est, nē opprimar, sīn falsus, ut timēre dēsinam, _relieve me of this fear; if it is well founded, that I may not be destroyed; but if it is groundless, that I may cease to fear_.
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