fear > define

noun

• An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight.
  • synonyms: fearfulness, fright
• An anxious feeling.
  • usage: "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
  • synonyms: concern, care
• A feeling of profound respect for someone or something.
  • usage: "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration"
  • synonyms: reverence, awe, veneration

verb

• Be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.
  • usage: "I fear she might get aggressive"
• Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of.
  • usage: "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists"
  • synonyms: dread
• Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement.
  • usage: "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"
• Be uneasy or apprehensive about.
  • usage: "I fear the results of the final exams"
• Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.
  • usage: "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius"
  • synonyms: reverence, revere, venerate

• (n.) That which causes or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
• (n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
• (n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
• (n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.
• (n.) A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
• (v.i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
• (n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
• (n.) To suspect; to doubt.
• (n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
• (n.) Apprehension of incurring or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
• (n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.