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Feared

Fear \Fear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feared (f[=e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fearing.] [OE. feren, faeren, to frighten, to be afraid, AS. f[=ae]ran to terrify. See Fear, n.]

  1. To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

    I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
    --Ps. xxiii. 4.

    Note: With subordinate clause.

    I greatly fear my money is not safe.
    --Shak.

    I almost fear to quit your hand.
    --D. Jerrold.

  2. To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

    Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
    --Milton.

  3. To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for. [R.]

    The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you.
    --Shak.

  4. To suspect; to doubt. [Obs.]

    Ay what else, fear you not her courage?
    --Shak.

  5. To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear. [Obs.]

    Fear their people from doing evil.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
    --Shak.

    Syn: To apprehend; dread; reverence; venerate.

Wiktionary
feared
  1. Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others. v

  2. (en-past of: fear)

Usage examples of "feared".

For one frantic instant she feared the Ssli might lie her unknown saboteur - and the cruiser depended, absolutely, on its Ssli - but its words reassured her.

So heavy was the traffic of heralds—as if folks feared a late response would deprive them of their designated places—that guards had to direct the flow in and out of the castle gates, which had previously always been adequate for daily traffic.

At the moment I didn't know which of the two men I feared more, the physician or the statesman.

Of the twenty-three invaders, once arrogant and feared, nineteen were carefully shepherded toward exile.

Although I feared for a sleep that might be punctuated with the nightmare of revived terrors, I felt myself slipping without volition into the black velvet well of unconsciousness.

Doona's long winter would arrive within two months, but there was no early chill which the organizers feared might mar the celebration.

And Todd realized in one second that the man he had feared as a rival to Kelly's affection was no real competition.

All right, it was Hayuman greed that his father feared and it was the Hrrubans who had initiated the space port project.

Fiona had told her when she left that she feared her mother would never come back.

Dalton had a firm, smooth grip, but not at all bonecrushing, as she feared it might be after noticing the prominent tendons on his wrists.

Nor were they the perfect mental spies so many feared: their telepathic powers were quite limited.

Not with any great subtlety, he feared, but they hadn't taken it amiss.

With so many prisoners on board, I feared a takeover attempt—and with good reason, it seems.

They were beautiful, and horrible beyond belief, and he feared them in a way that had nothing to do with the long knives in their hands.

For a moment he feared she had been hit, before he recognized the expression.