单词 | pyrophobia |
释义 | > as lemmaspyrophobia pyrophobia n. Brit. /ˌpʌɪrə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/ , U.S. /ˌpaɪrəˈfoʊbiə/ [compare ancient Greek πυροϕοβεῖν to fear fire] extreme fear of fire.ΚΠ 1858 M. Dods Early Lett. (1910) 110 Fear of fire is their hobby, a kind of pyrophobia. 1886 C. L. Dana in A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 51/1 I myself have met with well-marked cases of..what might be called pyrophobia, or fear of fire. 1925 S. Lewis Arrowsmith xxviii. 317 He made a checking list of the favorite neurasthenic fears: agoraphobia, claustrophobia, pyrophobia, anthropophobia, and the rest. 1991 D. R. Koontz Cold Fire ii. ii. 258 Holly tried to suppress her pyrophobia. Nevertheless, even after they had passed the charred land and could no longer smell the scorched brush, Holly had an image in her mind of the huge valley at night, aflame from end to end. < as lemmas |
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