Fearname

• 1

  A surname.

fearnoun詞源 1/fɪə/

• 1

  A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

  • 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.
• 2

  A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.

  • Not everybody has the same fears.
  • I have a fear of ants.
• 3

  Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.

  • Spiders are my greatest fear.
• 4

  Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

  • 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.
• 5

  A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.

  • 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.

fearverb詞源 1/fɪə/

• 1

  To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

  • I fear the worst will happen.
  • I greatly fear my money is not safe.
• 2

  To feel fear.

  • Never fear; help is always near.
  • Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
• 3

  To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].

  • She fears for her son’s safety.
• 4

  To venerate; to feel awe towards.

  • People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.
• 5

  To regret.

  • I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.
• 6

  obsoleteTo cause fear to; to frighten.

  • Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes /[…]/ For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
  • Ythrild with deepe disdaine of his proud threat, She shortly thus; Fly they, that need to fly; Wordes fearen babes.
• 7

  obsoleteTo be anxious or solicitous for.

  • Fearst thou thy person? thou shalt haue a guard:
  • The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I promise ye, I fear you.
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  obsoleteTo suspect; to doubt.

  • Fear you not her courage?

fearadj詞源 2/fɪə/

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  dialectalAble; capable; stout; strong; sound.

  • hale and fear