fear

fear

fear (third-person singular simple present fears, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:

     ‘Be God,’ sayde Sir Gawayne, ‘his grevys me but lytyll; yet shalt thou nat feare me for all thy grete wordis.

2. (transitive) To feel fear about (something).

   I fear the worst will happen.

3. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

   People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.

4. (transitive) Regret

   I fear [regret that] I have bad news for you: your husband has died.

fear (countable and uncountable; plural fears)

1. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

   He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.

2. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

   Not everybody has the same fears.

   I have a fear of ants.

3. (uncountable) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.

fear (genitive fir)

1. somebody, something, one

fear (comparative more fear, superlative most fear)

1. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

   hale and fear

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