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- verb Present participle of
fear . - adjective Exhibiting
fear . - adjective Showing profound
respect ordeference .
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Examples
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A witness, who wouldn't give his name fearing reprisals, claimed the police used unjustified force.
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A witness, who wouldn't give his name fearing reprisals, says the police used unjustified force.
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A witness, who wouldn't give his name fearing reprisals, claimed the police used unjustified force.
The Seattle Times 2011
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A witness, who wouldn't give his name fearing reprisals, claimed the police used unjustified force.
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An eyewitness, who refused to give his name fearing he would be targeted, said the restaurant was full when the car bomb exploded shortly before 8 a.m.
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Hmm … well, especially the way things are going with Obama, the idea that someone who “merely” tinkers with regulations will have no real power worth fearing is * not* reassuring.
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If a young squirrel and a baby raccoon, both not yet well versed in fearing humans, can actually come closer to us rather than running away in terror, then fear becomes less clearly instinctual.
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Presumably in fearing a threat to the institution of marriage you see it not as a positive thing in its own right, but as a positive thing primarily because it is normal and pure in comparison to the negative -- the abnormal, the impure ... the deviant.
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007
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Presumably in fearing a threat to the institution of marriage you see it not as a positive thing in its own right, but as a positive thing primarily because it is normal and pure in comparison to the negative -- the abnormal, the impure ... the deviant.
Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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O my lady, the children are young, and thou art excusable in fearing for them, for those that love well are wont to deem ill: but, O my daughter, thou knowest my tenderness and mine affection for thee and thy children, for indeed I reared thee before them.
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