(n.) A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
(n.) Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Belng.
(n.) Respectful reverence for men of authority or worth.
(n.) That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
(n.) To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
(n.) To have a reverential awe of; to solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
(n.) To be anxious or solicitous for.
(n.) To suspect; to doubt.
(n.) To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
(v. i.) To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
(3) S&P – the only one of the three major agencies not to have stripped the UK of its coveted AAA status – said it had been surprised at the pick-up in activity during 2013 – a year that began with fears of a triple-dip recession.
(4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(5) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(6) And adding to this toxic mix, was the fear that the hung parliament would lead to a weak government.
(7) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
(8) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
(9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(10) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(11) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(12) First, Dr Collins is fear-mongering when he says that ‘lives will be lost’ as a result of our calculations.
(13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(14) Under pressure from many backbenchers, he has tightened planning controls on windfarms and pledged to "roll back" green subsidies on bills, leading to fears of dwindling support for the renewables industry.
(15) The countries have accused each other of cross-border attacks and there are fears the current tension could spark a wider war with Nkunda at its centre.
(16) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(17) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
(18) One of the reasons for doing this study is to give a voice to women trapped in this epidemic,” said Dr Catherine Aiken, academic clinical lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Cambridge, “and to bring to light that with all the virology, the vaccination and containment strategy and all the great things that people are doing, there is no voice for those women on the ground.” In a supplement to the study, the researchers have published some of the emails to Women on Web which reveal their fears.
(19) Some have been threatened and assaulted, while others’ homes have been ransacked, their families living in constant fear.
(20) The population prevalence of high dental fear was 115 fearful children per 1000 population (SE = 0.02).
Funky
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Example Sentences:
(1) While others chose the rather more funky hotspot Kreuzberg, "Bowie was more at home" there, says Claudia Skoda , a fashion designer friend.
(2) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
(3) Right on the beach is this traditional, yet funky, taverna run by Nikos and the talented Magdna.
(4) Yes, but given how much we like spectacle of others suffering, that might only be a matter of time – hangings downloadable to your funky new Google glasses .
(5) Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives And there are two full-sized live-music venues: a vast, hangar-like space that also features a food concession – form an orderly queue for Funky House Party In Your Mouth Cheesecake ($4) – and a smaller room decked out to look like a nightclub.
(6) There is an increasing number of boutique hotels – I spent a night at the super-stylish Estalagem in nearby Ponta do Sol, which has recently opened a cheaper, funky sister property, Hotel da Vila .
(7) When I was nine, Walk On The Wild Side was number 10 in the charts, and there had never been a record so languid and funky and cool and sexy.
(8) Touring with them, and more recently with the Dead Weather, where he is not the guitarist but the drummer (and a powerfully funky one, too), the challenge is to succeed with that band, on its own terms.
(9) The short stories are published by the Connemara-based Doire Press publishing house Where to stay The House Hotel is a rather fancy boutique-style hotel with funky furniture, helpful staff and a late bar.
(10) This is not your average dorm-style accommodation: there’s a funky-cool aesthetic throughout the bedrooms, shared baths, and common areas, which include a patio bar and screening room.
(11) He is just so eminently castable – classically trained, poised, yet with a hint of offbeat funkiness and with the most luxurious voice since Richard Burton.
(12) Y’all don’t look like press to me,” adeadpan Prince announced at the start of a set largely composed of new material but also including a cover of Play That Funky Music and a version of his song I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man.
(13) The track I’d play to show off my eclectic tastes Front 242: Headhunter Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Chicago we have a lot of clubs that play industrial and punk music that I find funky and soulful.
(14) Click here to watch Major Lazer perfomring at the Reading branch of the festival With the event clearly no longer the bastion of male guitar rock, female musicians are a big hit this year with Haim 's funky LA party jams proving the perfect soundtrack for the end of summer.
(15) That’s a dog.” I tell him about my quest: a search for the perfect funky small American town, a place with a buzzing homespun coffee shop and a great little deli, a town with some youthful exuberance and a shared passion for the great outdoors – plus, of course, friendly bookshops such as his.
(16) Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notting Hill street carnival, the Equals singing Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys, the Clash singing Police and Thieves, football fans throwing bananas at black players, black players becoming international captains, Lenny Henry offering to be repatriated to Dudley, Paul Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, the Brixton and Toxteth riots of 1981, Janet Kay trilling Silly Games on Top of the Pops, Courtney Pine's Jazz Warriors, the London Community Gospel Choir, the Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zephaniah turning down an MBE, pirate radio, natty dread, funki dred, drum'n'bass, dubstep, grime, Dizzie Rascal.
(17) • Six-person cabin from £143 a night mjoeyri.is DENMARK Birkedal, Møn Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fun, funky and – if filled to capacity – affordable, this eye-catching home is formed of nine cylinders fused to form a three-bedroom villa for six.
(18) They are in white; West Germany are in their funky epilepsy-inducing green away kit.
(19) I walked across People's Square, Shanghai's municipal hub, with its modern Grand Theatre, whose transparent plastic walls and sweeping concave roof give it the appearance of a giant funky ashtray, and the Shanghai Museum, shaped like a saucepan complete with handle on the top.
(20) Stephen Drew, Will Middlebrooks and Jacoby Ellsbury will bat next as the Sox look to snap out of their funky mess of a slump.