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