Tra từ fear - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

fear UK [fɪə r ] US [fɪr] noun countable or uncountable [ fears ]
1. <E > an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful or bad that is happening or might happen
• Trembling with fear, she handed over the money to the gunman.
• Even when the waves grew big, the boy showed no (signs of) fear.
• I have a fear of heights.
• The low profit figures simply confirmed my worst fears.
• + that There are fears that the disease will spread to other countries.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Fear and phobias ↑Anxiety and worry - general words
2. be in fear of your life
to be frightened that you might be killed
• Lakisha sat inside, in fear of her life, until the police came.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Afraid
3. be no fear of sth informal
to be no possibility that a particular thing will happen
• Malcolm knows the city well, so there's no fear of us getting lost (= we will not get lost).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Impossible and improbable
4. for fear that/of sth
because you are worried that a particular thing might happen
• They wouldn't let their cat outside for fear (that) it would get run over.
• I didn't want to move for fear of waking her up.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Connecting words which introduce a cause or reason

Collocations:
Verbs
cause fuel inspire raise spark fear
• This violence has raised fears of attacks on places of worship.
express voice your fears
• She expressed her fears about street crime.
allay calm ease quell soothe (sb's) fears
• The government sought to calms fears about possible terrorist attacks.
put strike fear into sb
• The look on his face struck fear into my heart.
heighten fears
• Stories like these serve to heighten parents' fears over immunization.
overcome fear
• I managed to overcome my fear of spiders.
have fear
• He has no fear of authority.
sth holds no fear (for sb)
• Death holds no fear for her.
sb's (worst) fears are confirmed realised
• When the police found a body, our worst fears were realised.
be gripped by fear
• Everyone is gripped by fear of redundancy.
fears are mounting
• Fears are mounting that we may be facing another recession.
Adjectives
a constant deep great growing real widespread fear
• There is widespread fear of violence.
sb's big biggest greatest worst fear
• Losing my sight was my biggest fear.
an exaggerated groundless unfounded fear
• She has an exaggerated fear of intimacy.
an irrational morbid fear
• I have an irrational fear of wasps.
a secret fear
• My secret fear was that my husband would leave.
renewed fears
• Leaders met yesterday, amid renewed fears of violence.
Prepositions
fear of sth
• My fear of flying prevented me from being there.
fears about over for sth
• Fears about their safety are growing.
for fear of/that
• I didn't ask any questions for fear of being thought ignorant.
do sth out of fear
• I kept silent out of fear.
[be/live] in fear
• Under his regime, we all lived in fear.
[crying/mad/trembling, etc] with fear
• I was shaking with fear.
without fear (of sth)
• They must be free to speak without fear of retribution.
amid fears of/that
• We fled the country amid fears of a revolution.
Nouns
(sb's) hopes and fears
• She described her hopes and fears for the future.
fear and anger confusion hatred loathing panic
• His speeches inspired fear and hatred.
a climate of fear
• Journalists here operate in a climate of fear.
the fear factor
• The gun club was accused of using the fear factor to recruit new members.

• Then he turned towards me and I was suddenly gripped by fear.
• I finally mastered my fear of flying.
• I was trembling with fear.
• You could tell she wasn't lying from the fear in her voice.
• Ten years later her worst fears were realized.
Idioms: No fear! ▪ have fears for somebody ▪ put the fear of God into you ▪ without fear or favour

verb
1. <I > T; not continuous to be frightened of something or someone unpleasant
• Most older employees fear unemployment.
• What do you fear most?
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Afraid
2. <I > T; not continuous formal to be worried or frightened that something bad might happen or might have happened
• + (that) Police fear (that) the couple may have drowned.
• formal It is feared (that) as many as two hundred passengers may have died in the crash.
• We huddled together, fearing we might be killed.
• + to infinitive Fearing to go herself, she sent her son to find out the news.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Afraid
3. I fear
formal used to give someone news of something bad that has happened or might happen
• + (that) I fear (that) she's already left.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Sadness and regret

• He reassured people that law-abiding citizens would have nothing to fear from the enquiries.
• It was feared that the break-up of the oil tanker would result in further pollution.
• The police feared that the crowd were becoming disorderly and so they moved in with horses.
• The committee kept the results of the survey to itself, fearing a bad public reaction.
• The government fears that talking to terrorists might legitimize their violent actions.
Idiom: never fear
Phrasal Verb: fear for somebody