A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.
A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone in particular.
Not everybody has the same fears.
Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.
Spiders are my greatest fear.
To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
I fear the worst will happen.
To feel fear.
A surname.
From Middle English feer, fere, fer, from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr (“calamity, sudden danger, peril, sudden attack, terrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (“danger”), from Proto-Indo-Europea...
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Never fear; help is always near.
To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].
She fears for her son’s safety.