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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