Use of the word fear

страх, опасение, боязнь, вероятность, опасаться, бояться, страшиться, ожидать

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Словосочетания

from fear of a whaling by his active parent — из страха быть выпоротым своим энергичным родителем  
a primal fear of the unknown — первобытный страх неизвестного  
to chase all fear — отбросить всякий страх  
to conquer fear — преодолеть страх  
devoid of fear — бесстрашный  
to draw back in fear / horror — отпрянуть в страхе, ужасе  
to expose one’s fear — показывать свой страх  
to fear greatly / very much — очень бояться  
to fear for — бояться за  
more than half dead with fear — чуть живой от страха  
to inspire smb. with fear — наполнить кого-л. чувством страха  
insusceptible to fear — лишённый страха, не знающий страха  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

fearful  — страшный, ужасный, испуганный, пугливый, напуганный, пугающий, робкий, полный страха
fearless  — бесстрашный, неустрашимый, безбоязненный, мужественный
feared  — опасаться, бояться, страшиться, ожидать

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: fear
he/she/it: fears
ing ф. (present participle): fearing
2-я ф. (past tense): feared
3-я ф. (past participle): feared

noun
ед. ч.(singular): fear
мн. ч.(plural): fears

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (General Australian, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɪɚ/, /fɪɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

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-European *per- (“to attempt, try, research, risk”). Cognate with Dutch gevaar (“danger, risk, peril”), German Gefahr (“danger, risk, hazard”), Swedish fara (“danger, risk, peril”), Latin perīculum (“danger, risk, trial”), Albanian frikë (“fear, danger”), Romanian frică. Doublet of peril.

The verb is from Middle English feren, from Old English fǣran (“to frighten, raven”), from the noun. Cognate with the archaic Dutch verb varen (“to fear; to cause fear”).

Noun[edit]

fear (countable and uncountable, plural fears)

2. (uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

   He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman’s wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 18, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?’

3. (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

   Not everybody has the same fears.  I have a fear of ants.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

4. (uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

Synonyms[edit]

• (an emotion caused by actual or perceived danger; a sense of fear induced by something or someone): See Thesaurus:fear
• (terrified veneration): dread

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

fear (third-person singular simple present fears, present participle fearing, simple past and past participle feared)

2. (transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

   I fear the worst will happen.

   • c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     I greatly fear my money is not safe.

   • At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

3. (intransitive) To feel fear.

   Never fear; help is always near.
5. (intransitive, used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.

   She fears for her son’s safety.

6. (transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

   People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.

7. (transitive) To regret.

   I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To cause fear to; to frighten.

   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book V:

     Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes / […] / For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage

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   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
     Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
     And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
     Their perch and not their terror.

9. (obsolete, transitive) To be anxious or solicitous for.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I promise ye, I fear you.

10. (obsolete, transitive) To suspect; to doubt.

    • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

      Fear you not her courage?

Synonyms[edit]

• (feel fear about (something)): be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized
• (venerate; to feel awe towards): be in awe of, revere, venerate

Antonyms[edit]

• (venerate; to feel awe towards): belittle, contemn

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English fere, feore, from Old English fēre (“able to go, fit for service”), from Proto-Germanic *fōriz (“passable”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to put across, ferry”). Cognate with Scots fere, feir (“well, active, sound”), Middle High German gevüere (“able, capable, fit, serviceable”), Swedish för (“capable, able, stout”), Icelandic færr (“able”). Related to fare.

Adjective[edit]

fear (comparative more fear, superlative most fear)

1. (dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

   hale and fear

Alternative forms[edit]

• feer

Anagrams[edit]

• FERA, Fera, Rafe, fare, reaf

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /fʲaɾˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fʲæɾˠ/

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Irish fer, from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Cognate with Welsh gŵr, Breton gour, Cornish gour, Gaulish viros, Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīra), Lithuanian výras, Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬭𐬀‎ (vīra), and Old English wer.

Noun[edit]

fear m (genitive singular fir, nominative plural fir)

1. man (adult male)

   Tá an fear ag ól uisce.

   The man is drinking water.

   Sláinte chuig na fir agus go marfuire na mná go deo!

   Health to the men and may the women live forever!

2. husband, male spouse

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Irish feraid, from Old Irish feraid.

Verb[edit]

fear (present analytic fearann, future analytic fearfaidh, verbal noun fearadh, past participle feartha)

1. (transitive) grant, provide
2. (transitive) pour out, give forth, shed
3. (transitive) wage
4. (transitive) perform, execute; hold, observe
5. (transitive) affect; benefit
6. (transitive) excrete

Conjugation[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fear	fhear	bhfear
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading[edit]

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fear”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 5 and p. 339
• Entries containing “fear” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “fear” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 30

Scots[edit]

Noun[edit]

fear (plural fears)

1. fear

Verb[edit]

fear (third-person singular simple present fears, present participle fearin, simple past feart, past participle feart)

1. to fear
2. to frighten, scare

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Irish fer, from Proto-Celtic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /fɛɾ/

Noun[edit]

fear m (genitive singular fir, plural fir)

1. man
2. husband, male spouse

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

fear (genitive fir)

1. somebody, something, one

Usage notes[edit]

• Used when referring to a singular masculine subject.
• For feminine subjects tè is used. Alternatively, neach can be used for either gender.
• In the plural feadhainn is used for both genders.

Derived terms[edit]

• feareigin
• fear mu seach

Mutation[edit]

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
fear	fhear
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also[edit]

• bean

Further reading[edit]

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 fer”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Frisian fethere, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥.

Cognate with English feather, Greek φτερό (fteró, “wing, feather”), Latin penna (“wing, feather”) and Irish éan (“bird”).

Noun[edit]

fear c (plural fearren, diminutive fearke)

1. feather
2. spring (mechanical device)

Further reading[edit]

• “fear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *farjǭ. Cognate with Dutch veer, English ferry.

Noun[edit]

fear n (plural fearen)

1. ferry

Further reading[edit]

• “fear (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 3[edit]

From Old Frisian *farn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn.

Noun[edit]

fear c (plural fearen)

1. fern

Further reading[edit]

• “fear (III)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Etymology 4[edit]

From Old Frisian *farch, from Proto-West Germanic *farh. Cognate with English farrow.

Adjective[edit]

fear

1. farrow

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of fear
uninflected	fear
inflected	feare
comparative	—
	positive
predicative/adverbial	fear
indefinite	c. sing.	feare
n. sing.	fear
plural	feare
definite	feare
partitive	fears

Further reading[edit]

• “fear (V)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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They say dogs can sense your fear.

Ваши родители, вероятно, говорили вам, что собаки могут чувствовать ваш страх.

It inspires fear, and fear causes weakness.

Гнев имеет своим источником страх, а вот страх возникает от слабости.

Some examples include the fear of child abduction, fear of violent crime, fear of vaccinations, and fear of science-based medicine.

Примерами могут служить боязнь похищения детей, боязнь жестоких преступлений, боязнь вакцинаций и боязнь научно обоснованной медицины.

Embarrassment is a kind of fear, fear of social condemnation.

Стеснительность — это боязнь общественного осуждения.

They’re based on fear, and fear breeds war.

Они основаны на страхе, а страх порождает ненаависть… и войну.

The result is fear and fear leads to bad decisions.

В этом есть элемент страха, а страх приводит нас к плохим решениям.

Stability based on fear simply increases fear and compromises trusting relationships among nations.

Стабильность, основанная на страхе, лишь усиливает страх и подрывает доверие в отношениях между государствами.

The fear of failure is another very common fear.

Боязнь новизны — это еще один страх, который весьма распространён.

Human beings have two types of fear: innate fear and learned fear.

Человеческие существа имеют два типа страха: врожденный страх и выученный страх.

They all share the fear, fear, fear and a secret waiting for disaster.

There are two types of fear, rational fear and irrational fear.

Страх делится на две категории: рациональный страх и иррациональный страх.

Fear of change; fear of daring; fear of initiative and fear of hope.

This technique helps you manage the second fear or the fear of fear itself.

Anxiety and fear are also generated by the fear of being insolvent in a given situation, the fear of sanctions and punishments.

Тревожность и страх порождаются также боязнью оказаться несостоятельным в той или иной ситуации, боязнью санкций и наказаний.

Examples are fear of heights, fear of flights, or fear of spiders.

Примерами могут служить страх высоты, страх полетов, боязнь пауков.

Among the main fears there are fear of being cought, fear of not satisfying a woman and being ridiculed or fear of prolonged serious relationships.

Среди основных страхов выделяют страх быть замеченным, страх не удовлетворить женщину и быть осмеянным или боязнь длительных серьезных отношений.

There are two kinds of fear: authentic fear, and imaginary fear.

In life, we experience two kinds of fear: real fear and psychological fear.

It’s fear… fear of failure, fear of being discovered, fear of liking the wrong person.

My biggest attachment was fear — fear of pain, fear of getting hurt, and fear of getting tired.

Моей самой большой привязанностью был страх: страх боли, страх получить травму и страх устать.

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