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  • noun Plural form of fear.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fear.

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Examples

  • Gilbert's eye brightened at the intelligence, though he had not given utterance to his fears -- _fears_ they were -- for even the young and brave recoil in terror from death, when it assumes a form and hovers near in a detested shape.

    The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century George Henry Miles

  • Ancient, sacred fears and faiths, ancient, sacred faiths and fears—

    On the Great Plateau 1917

  • I. iii.137 (414,6) Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings] [W: feats] _Present fears_ are _fears of things present_, which Macbeth declares, and every man has found, to be less than the _imagination_ presents them while the objects are yet distant.

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • Most telling is the fact they thought he was Muslim right away - profiling rooted in fears from the prior attacks, sure, but I'm guessing in the case of Menezes, such assumptions were based solely on thick dark hair and slightly darker skin.

    tourist trap 2005

  • Stories thrive on conflict and facing your fears is the greatest conflict.

    May 2007 2007

  • Stories thrive on conflict and facing your fears is the greatest conflict.

    Scaredy Cat 2007

  • Many times recently he had sounded the alarm of the dangers attending recapitalization of properties that already bore a heavy weight of watered securities, but his colleagues had laughed at what they termed his fears, and had attempted to reassure him of their complete possession of the departments of government that controlled such matters.

    An American Suffragette Isaac N. Stevens

  • Couty wrote to Mas describing what he called his "fears for the future."

    Reuters: Top News 2012

  • Couty wrote to Mas describing what he called his "fears for the future."

    Reuters: Top News 2012

  • Raymond” has been pushed to a late March release because the label fears there is “chaos in the camp”.

    Rumors | CurveHouse.com 2010

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