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▸ 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, used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid 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.
Similar:
dread,
fright,
care,
fearfulness,
concern,
venerate,
revere,
reverence,
anxiety,
apprehension,
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Opposite:
Types:
agoraphobia,
arachnophobia,
acrophobia,
claustrophobia,
coulrophobia,
cynophobia,
demophobia,
entomophobia,
glossophobia,
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