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Substantiivit
- (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
- (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
- (uncountable) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
Verbit
- (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.
- (transitive) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
- (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
- (transitive) Regret.
- (obsolete) To be anxious or solicitous for.
- (obsolete) To suspect; to doubt.
Adjektiivit
- (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
Esimerkit
- I fear the worst will happen. I fear for their safety.
- Do not fear! I am here to protect you.
- I fear that this trip is not going to turn out well.
- I fear evil more than I fear death.
- hale and fear
- Fear you not her courage?
- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore[...]I fear you.
- I fear [regret that] I have bad news for you: your husband has died.
- People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.
- One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[...]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- 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
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I have a fear of ants.
- Not everybody has the same fears.
- ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?’
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 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.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | feared | Partisiipin perfekti | fear'd (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin perfekti | feard (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | feared |
| Imperfekti | fear'd (vanhahtava) | Imperfekti | feard (vanhahtava) |
| Partisiipin preesens | fearing | Monikko | fears |
| Komparatiivi | more fear | Superlatiivi | most fear |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | fears | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | feareth (vanhahtava) |