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# fear

«fear» in Mova's school dictionary: **the feeling you have when you think something bad or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fear, fears); verb (fear, fears, feared, fearing); adjectives fearful, fearless

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fear is the feeling you have when you think something bad or dangerous might happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#m1)

2) A fear is a particular thing that frightens you: a fear of spiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#m2)

3) To fear something means to be afraid of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#m3)

4) To fear can mean to worry that something bad is true: I fear we are late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about feelings, fear is normal and useful: it warns us of danger and makes the heart beat fast and the body ready to run or fight. Being brave means doing the right thing even when you feel fear; talking about fears helps make them smaller. In stories fear builds tension and suspense. Phrases: fear of the dark, in fear, for fear of, face your fears, no fear (informal: no way), shaking with fear.

### examples

- Many children have a fear of the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x1)
- She was shaking with fear during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x2)
- Fear makes your heart beat faster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x3)
- Facing your fears can make you stronger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x4)
- The rabbit froze in fear when it saw the fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x5)
- He didn't climb the tree for fear of falling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x6)
- Tell someone you trust about your fears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x7)
- Firefighters run into burning buildings without fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x8)
- Every heart was full of fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/#x9)

### note

Noun forms: fear (uncountable feeling), fears (particular things). Adjectives: fearful (full of fear), fearless (without fear). In everyday speech people more often say «be afraid of» or «be scared of» than «fear». A fear of something does not mean it is truly dangerous, and something dangerous can feel safe.

### In the corpora

- [Grown-ups have all the same feelings children have: anger, sadness, fear, loneliness, jealousy, embarrassment and pride.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/0/)
- [Bad-news gossip can feel caring but still spreads fear; offer help, not headlines.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/20/)
- [How are you feeling?" Freya bursts into tears, and then it's over much quicker than she feared.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/9/)
- [Children sometimes hide what happened online because they fear trouble, and problems grow when kept secret.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/10/)
- [Some fears are close to home, like a parent's job changing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/25-future-fears-rules/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fear» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fear/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.