Fear I Make Showed Feeling Extra Examples Safety

• her eyes showed no fear.
• the child was shaking with fear.
• i suddenly felt gripped by fear.
• she nearly went crazy with fear and anxiety.

fear

1. the bad feeling that you have when you are in danger or when a particular thing frightens you
• Her eyes showed no fear.
• The child was shaking with fear.
• I suddenly felt gripped by fear.
• She nearly went crazy with fear and anxiety.
• The attacks created a climate of fear.
• Terror attacks are a tool to instil fear in the public.
• He managed to overcome his fears.
• Fear of crime can affect people's lives.
• We lived in constant fear of losing our jobs.
• Women should be able to work without fear of harassment.

Extra Examples

• He says that a culture of fear is behind this obsession with firearms.
• An atmosphere of fear and hatred has been created around immigration.
• He lied out of fear.
• He ran away in fear.
• The children were cowering in fear.
• His face was white with fear.
• I was paralysed by fear.
• It was the first time she had experienced real fear.
• She did not know why she should feel such fear.
• She stared at him without fear.
• The boy showed no fear.
• The men hesitated in fear of whatever was to come next.
• The men set off in fear and trepidation.
• The people live in fear of attack by the bandits.
• They have a terrible fear of failure.
• When she heard the news, some of her fear subsided.
• The pupils obeyed through fear of punishment.
• the constant fear of discovery
• the fear that her mother had instilled in her
• the girl's childhood fear of being eaten by monsters
• Arachnophobia is an irrational fear of spiders.
• the most primal fear, that of death
2. a feeling of concern about somebody's safety or about something bad that might happen
• The doctor's report confirmed our worst fears.
• Police tried hard to allay the fears of local residents.
• her fears for her son’s safety
• Alan spoke of his fears for the future.
• the fear that he had cancer
• The announcement sparked fears that interest rates will rise.
• The government announced the new measures amid growing security fears.

Extra Examples

• Doctors have voiced fears that we may be facing an epidemic.
• consumer fears about health risks
• The concert was cancelled amid health and safety fears.
• There are growing fears of water shortages.
• Fears are growing of a new oil embargo.
• Stock markets tumbled amid fears of a new recession.
• There were fears about the weather impacting attendance.
• My biggest fear was that my children would get sick.
• My worst fears were confirmed.
• Our fears proved unfounded.
• Public fears about the disease increased.
• The government is anxious to allay the public's fears.
• This incident has fuelled fears of a full-scale war.
• This stoked fears of financial difficulties.
• new fears over terrorism
• new terrorism fears
3. to avoid the danger of something happening
• We spoke quietly for fear of waking the guards.
• I had to run away for fear (that) he might one day kill me.

Extra Examples

• Nobody refused for fear of losing their job.
• He wrote under a false name for fear of reprisals.
4. feeling frightened that you might be killed
5. used to say that you definitely do not want to do something
• ‘Are you coming climbing?’ ‘No fear!’
6. to make somebody very frightened, especially in order to make them do something
7. to make somebody be afraid, etc.
• The sound of gunfire struck fear into the hearts of the villagers.
8. in a fair way
• They undertook to make their judgement without fear or favour.

Word Origin

• Old English fǣr ‘calamity, danger’, fǣran ‘frighten’, also ‘revere’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gevaar and German Gefahr ‘danger’.