▸ noun: (uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. ▸ noun: (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone. ▸ noun: (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns. ▸ noun: (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. ▸ verb: (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To feel fear. ▸ verb: (intransitive) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for]. ▸ verb: (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards. ▸ verb: (transitive) To regret. ▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten. ▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for. ▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt. ▸ adjective: (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound. ▸ noun: A surname.
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