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Usually means: To avoid the risk of.
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lest :
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lest : Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lest : Merriam-Webster
lest : Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
lest : American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
lest : Collins English Dictionary
lest : Vocabulary.com
Lest , l'est , lest , l'Est : Wordnik
lest : Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
lest : Wiktionary
lest : Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
lest : The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
lest : Infoplease Dictionary
Lest , lest : Dictionary.com
lest : Online Etymology Dictionary
LEST , Lest : Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Lest : Online Plain Text English Dictionary
lest : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
lest : Rhymezone
Lest : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
lest : Webster's 1828 Dictionary
lest : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
lest : FreeDictionary.org
lest : TheFreeDictionary.com
lest : Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
LEST : Acronym Finder
lest : Idioms
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
lest : Urban Dictionary
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lesting as well.)
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▸ adverb : for fear that (
"She tiptoed lest her mother should hear her" )
▸ adverb : that (after verbs explicitly expressing fear etc.) (
"He worried lest he should be late" )
little ,
new ,
whole ,
dead ,
4th ,
young ,
thick ,
wicked ,
own ,
high ,
fearful
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