fear

Related to fear: phobia
See:
  • (there's) no fear of (something)
  • be in fear of (one's) life
  • be/go in fear of your life
  • blanch with (an emotion)
  • cower down with (some emotion)
  • fear for
  • fear for (someone or something)
  • fear no colors
  • fear of missing out
  • fear the worst
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
  • for fear of
  • for fear of (something)
  • for fear of something/of doing something
  • for fear that (something)
  • go in fear of (one's) life
  • he that is down need fear no fall
  • I’m shaking in fear
  • I'm shaking (in fear)
  • in fear and trembling
  • in fear and trembling of (someone or something)
  • jump for (something)
  • jump from (something)
  • jump with (something)
  • never fear
  • No fear!
  • put the fear of God in
  • put the fear of God in (one)
  • put the fear of God in someone
  • put the fear of God into
  • put the fear of God into (one)
  • put the fear of God into somebody
  • put the fear of God into someone
  • rub the fear of God into (one)
  • strike fear into (one)
  • strike fear into (one's) heart
  • strike fear into the heart of (someone)
  • strike fear, terror, etc. into somebody/somebody's heart
  • there's no fear of something
  • weep for (someone or something)
  • weep with (something)
  • without fear or favor
  • without fear or favour
References in classic literature
They were old friends of mine, enemies rather, that peopled my nights with fear.
For I was the prey of all manner of fierce life that dwelt in the forest, and it was in ecstasies of fear that I fled before the hunting monsters.
"And ye do not know why ye fear Man?" Hathi went on.
All the Jungle People came before him without fear, and his word was the Law of all the Jungle.
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
Such prolonged ancient fear, at last become subtle, spiritual and intellectual--at present, me thinketh, it is called SCIENCE."--
Cannon found that pain, fear and rage occurred in circumstances which affected the supply of adrenin, and that an artificial injection of adrenin could, for example, produce all the symptoms of fear.
But I pointed out the distant pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain to her, and contrived to make her understand that we were seeking a refuge there from her Fear. You know that great pause that comes upon things before the dusk?
Now she drew near to us, and Chaka sank upon the earth, huddled up in fear, hiding his face in his hands; but I was not afraid, my father-- only the wicked need fear to look on the Queen of Heaven.
But at last his fear of his own warriors, watching behind him, grew greater than the fear of the unknown behind the ancient door and he pushed the heavy skeel aside and entered.
If I owe him no loyalty though he be my brother, I cannot so easily disavow the fear I hold him in because of a certain episode in my life of which he is cognizant.
He knew neither fear nor mercy, except upon rare occasions when some strange, inexplicable force stayed his hand--a force inexplicable to him, perhaps, because of his ignorance of his own origin and of all the forces of humanitarianism and civilization that were his rightful heritage because of that origin.
But as to the future he had to fear, in the first place, that a new successor to the Church might not be friendly to him and might seek to take from him that which Alexander had given him, so he decided to act in four ways.
The Russian was attempting to make travel as difficult as possible for him by turning the natives against him in superstitious fear.
You that are still in the flesh, subject to horrors of the imagination, think what a monstrous fear that must be which seeks in darkness security from malevolent existences of the night.