fear

noun · verb · adjective · adverbA2
Tiếng Việt:
sợ hãi

sợ hãi. Họ từ FEAR — danh từ: fear; động từ: fear; tính từ: fearful; trạng từ: fearfully.

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Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
fears
  1. 1.

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

    He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.

  2. 2.

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

    Not everybody has the same fears.

    I have a fear of ants.

  3. 3.

    (countable)Something one is afraid of; the object of one’s fear.

    Spiders are my greatest fear.

  4. 4.

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

    Đồng nghĩa: dread

  5. 5.

    (UK, countable, uncountable, with definite article)(UK, with definite article, "the fear") A feeling of dread and anxiety when waking after drinking a lot of alcohol, wondering what one did while drunk.

    Đồng nghĩa: hangxiety

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
fears
V_ing/Gerund
fearing
V_ed/pp
feared
  1. 1.

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

    I fear the worst will happen.

  2. 2.

    (intransitive)To feel fear.

    Never fear; help is always near.

  3. 3.

    (intransitive)To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for [with for].

    She fears for her son’s safety.

  4. 4.

    (transitive)To venerate; to feel awe towards.

    People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.

  5. 5.

    (transitive)To regret.

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

  6. 6.

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

  7. 7.

    (obsolete, transitive)To be anxious or solicitous for.

  8. 8.

    (obsolete, transitive)To suspect; to doubt.

Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more fearmost fear
Superlative
feer
  1. 1.

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

    hale and fear

Cụm từ thường dùng

fear of

giới từ đi kèm

fear of heights

cụm thông dụng

live in fear

cụm thông dụng

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Tính từ

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courageconfidencebelittlecontemnbelittle, contemn

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English feer, fere, fer (fear), from Old English fǣr, ġefǣr, from Proto-Germanic *fērō, *fērą (danger), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (to go through, carry forth, try). Cognate with gevaar, Gefahr, fare, fár, fare danger, fara, perīculum, πεῖρα, փորձ attempt. peril.

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