Meaning of fear | Babel Free

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1. A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
   uncountable
2. A surname.
3. A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat
4. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
   countable
5. Cape, a cape in SE North Carolina at the mouth of Cape Fear River.
6. A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular
7. the raising of the hairs on the skin as a response to cold or fear; goose bumps or goose pimples.
8. Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
   countable
9. Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear
10. an abnormal fear of many things.
11. Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.
    uncountable
12. Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns
13. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger:affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fearfulness, fright, funk, horror, panic, terror, trepidation.
14. A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.
    UK, countable, uncountable, with-definite-article
15. A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk
16. To be afraid of:dread.
17. (a) feeling of great worry or anxiety caused by the knowledge of danger. The soldier tried not to show his fear; fear of water. vrees, angs خَوْف страх medo strach die Furcht frygt; angst; skræk φόβοςmiedo, temor hirm ترس pelko peurפחד भय strah félelem ketakutan hræðsla, ótti, skelfing paura 恐れ 근심, 걱정 baimė bailes ketakutan vreesfrykt, redsel, skrekkstrach ویره medo frică, teamă страх; боязнь strach strah strah rädsla, fruktan ความกลัว korku 憂慮 страх; побоювання ڈر ، خوف sự sợ hãi 忧虑
18. vreesbevange بِخَوْف، بصورة مُخيفَه боязливо com medo bázlivě; strašně furchtbar forfærdeligt; frygteligt φοβισμένα temerosamente kartlikult, hirmuäratavalt بطور وحشتناک؛ بسیار بد pelokkaasti terriblement; craintivement בְּפַּחַד भय सहित strašno, grozno szörnyen dengan ketakutan hræðilega terribilmente, spaventosamente 恐ろしく 무서워하여 baimingai, baisiai briesmīgi; šausmīgi dengan ketakutan bang, vreselijkfryktelig, reddsomtstrasznie په ډاروونكى دول terrivelmente/com medo grozav; cu teamă ужасно, с...
19. without fear; brave. a fearless soldier. onbevrees, onverskrokke, moedig جَسور، جَريء، لا يَخاف безстрашен destemido nebojácný, odvážný furchtlos frygtløs ατρόμητοςintrépido, audaz kartmatu نترس peloton intrépideעשוי לבלי חת भय रहित neustrašiv bátor tanpa takut óttalaus, djarfur intrepido 恐れを知らない 무서움을 모르는 bebaimis bezbailīgs tidak gentar onbevreesdfryktløs, uten redsel nieustraszony بې ډاره، زړور sem medo/ADJ – destemido neînfricat бесстрашный nebojácny, smelý neustrašen neustrašiv oförfärad,...
20. onbevrees, moedig بِجَسارَه، بِجُرأَه، بِدون خَوْف безстрашно destemidamente nebojácně, odvážně furchtlos frygtløst άφοβα sin temor kartmatult بطور شجاعانه pelottomasti intrépidement בְּלִי פַּחַד निर्भयतापूर्वक neustrašivo, hrabro vakmerőn dengan berani djarflega, óttalaust intrepidamente 大胆不敵に 겂 없이 be baimės bezbailīgi dengan tidak gentar onbevreesdfryktløst, uten redsel nieustraszenie په زړوره تو ګه destemidamente fără frică/teamă бесстрашно nebojácne neustrašno neustrašivo oförfärat อย่าง...
21. so as not to. She would not go swimming for fear of catching a cold. uit vrees vir خَوْفاً مِن за да не com receio de z obavy před, aby ne- aus Furcht vor af frygt for μην τυχόν por miedo de, por temor a kartuses(t) مبادا که؛ از ترس اینکه jottei de peur de מִפַּחַד שֶׁ- के डर से कोई काम नहीं करना iz straha od (pred) nehogy... untuk menghindari af ótta við per paura di ～しないように …을 하지 않도록 kad ne baidoties untuk menghindari uit vrees voor av frykt for z obawy przed بې ډاره com receio de ca să nu ...

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Examples

“He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.”

“I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.”

“Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.”

“Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.”

“Not everybody has the same fears.”

“I have a fear of ants.”

“Spiders are my greatest fear.”

“The feare of the Lord is the beginning of wisedome.”

“That sacred dread of all offence to him, which is called the Fear of God.”

“Her feeling of humiliation had intensified as the day had gone on and her hangover had worsened. She now also had 'the fear' to contend with, […]”

“He had the fear, that feeling of dread that you've done something really embarrassing. The fear was a hundred times worse than the hangover. No, a thousand times worse.”

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