Fear

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A very unpleasant or disturbing feeling caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
  • noun. A state or condition marked by this feeling.
  • noun. A feeling of disquiet or apprehension.
  • noun. A reason for dread or apprehension.
  • noun. Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a deity.
  • intransitive verb. To be afraid or frightened of.
  • intransitive verb. To be uneasy or apprehensive about.
  • intransitive verb. To consider probable; expect.
  • intransitive verb. To revere or be in awe of (a deity, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To be afraid.
  • intransitive verb. To be uneasy or apprehensive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil or harm, and accompanied by a strong desire to escape it; an active feeling of dread of which fright and terror are the intenser degrees; hence, apprehension or dread in general.
  • noun. Anxiety; solicitude.
  • noun. A cause or object of fear.
  • noun. Formidableness; aptness to cause fear.
  • noun. Reverence; respect for rightful authority; especially, reverence manifesting itself in obedience.
  • noun. Synonyms See alarm. Concern, dread. Veneration, reverence, awe.
  • noun. See feer.
  • Able; capable; stout; strong; sound: as, hale and fear (whole and entire, well and sound).
  • To frighten; affright; terrify; drive away or keep away by fear.
  • To feel a painful apprehension of, as some impending evil; be afraid of; consider or expect with emotions of alarm or solicitude.
  • To reverence; have a reverential awe of; venerate.
  • To have fear for; have anxiety about; be solicitous for.
  • To be frightened; be afraid; be in apprehension of evil; feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
  • To be in anxious uncertainty; doubt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A variant of fere, a mate, a companion.
  • intransitive verb. To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
  • noun. A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Being.
  • noun. Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
  • noun. That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
  • noun. in apprehension lest.
  • transitive verb. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
  • transitive verb. To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
  • transitive verb. To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for.
  • transitive verb. To suspect; to doubt.
  • transitive verb. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
  • verb. To cause fear to; to frighten.
  • verb. To feel fear about (something).
  • verb. To venerate; to feel awe towards.
  • verb. Regret
  • noun. A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
  • noun. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
  • noun. Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement
  • verb. be uneasy or apprehensive about
  • noun. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
  • Word Usage
    "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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    anxiety  emotion  regret  worry  
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    panic  
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    absolute  adsentiatur  arm  bad  child  
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    fear for  fere  
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