fear /fēr/

1. A painful emotion excited by danger
2. Apprehension of danger or pain
3. Alarm
4. Solicitude, anxiety
5. That which causes alarm
6. Risk or possibility
7. Reverence or awe (religion)
8. Piety towards God (old religion)

1. To regard with fear, be afraid of
2. To expect with alarm
3. To be regretfully inclined to think
4. To revere (religion)
5. To be anxious or in fear about (obsolete)
6. To stand in awe of (religion)
7. To venerate (religion)
8. To terrify (obsolete)
9. To make afraid (obsolete)

1. To be afraid
2. To suspect some danger to (with for)
3. (esp in neg) to be in doubt

feared /fērd/ adjective (archaic and Scot)

Afraid (also (Scot) feart /fērt/)

fearˈful adjective

1. Timorous
2. Producing intense fear
3. Terrible
4. Very great, very bad (informal)

fearˈfully adverb

• litterbug
• litterbugs
• littered
• littering
• litter lout
• litter louts
• littermate
• littermates
• litters
• littery
• little
• littleane
• littleanes
• little auk
• Little Bear
• little blue penguin
• little by little
• Little Dipper
• little-ease
• little-eases
• little end
• Little-endian
• little ends
• little Englander
• little Englanderism