Usually means: Intense anxiety about perceived threats.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word fear:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. fear: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fear: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fear: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fear, fear: Wordnik
  7. fear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Fear, fear: Wiktionary
  9. fear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fear: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fear: Dictionary.com
  13. fear (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fear: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Fear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fear: Rhymezone
  19. fear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fear: Free Dictionary
  22. fear: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Fear, fear: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Fear: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. fear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Fear (from a Moral Standpoint), Fear (in Canon Law), fear: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fear (from a Moral Standpoint), Fear (in Canon Law), fear: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Fear: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Fear (from a Moral Standpoint), Fear (in Canon Law), fear: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FEAR: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. fear: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fear (from a Moral Standpoint), Fear (in Canon Law): Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. F.E.A.R: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See feared as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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, 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.

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