{
    "term": "fear",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the bad feeling that you have when you are in danger or when a particular thing frightens you",
            "sensetop": "fear of somebody/somethingin fear of somebody/somethingwithout fear of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Her eyes showed no fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The child was shaking with fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I suddenly felt **gripped by fear**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were living in a perpetual state of **fear and anxiety**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The attacks created a **climate of fear**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Terror attacks are a tool to **instil fear** in the public."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He managed to overcome his fears."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Fear of crime** can affect people's lives.",
                    "contextForm": "fear of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We lived **in constant fear of** losing our jobs.",
                    "contextForm": "in fear of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Women should be able to work without fear of harassment.",
                    "contextForm": "without fear of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He says that a culture of fear is behind this obsession with firearms."
                },
                {
                    "text": "An atmosphere of fear and hatred has been created around immigration."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He lied out of fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He ran away in fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children were cowering in fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His face was white with fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was paralysed by fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the first time she had experienced real fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She did not know why she should feel such fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She stared at him without fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The boy showed no fear."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The men hesitated in fear of whatever was to come next."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The men set off in fear and trepidation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The people live in fear of attack by the bandits."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have a terrible fear of failure."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When she heard the news, some of her fear subsided."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They obeyed through fear of punishment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the constant fear of discovery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the fear that her mother had instilled in her"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the girl's childhood fear of being eaten by monsters"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Arachnophobia is an irrational fear of spiders."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the most primal fear, that of death"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "deep", "deep-seated"],
                "verb + fear": ["experience", "feel", "have"],
                "fear + verb": ["abate", "subside", "grow"],
                "preposition": ["for fear of", "in fear", "in fear of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "fear and loathing",
                    "fear and trembling",
                    "fear and trepidation"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a feeling of concern about somebody's safety or about something bad that might happen",
            "sensetop": "fear for somebody/somethingfear that…amid fears",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The doctor's report confirmed our **worst fears**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police tried hard to **allay** the **fears** of local residents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "her fears for her son’s safety",
                    "contextForm": "fear for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Alan spoke of his **fears for the future**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the fear that he had cancer",
                    "contextForm": "fear that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The announcement **sparked fears** that interest rates will rise."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government announced the new measures amid growing security fears.",
                    "contextForm": "amid fears"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Doctors have voiced fears that we may be facing an epidemic."
                },
                {
                    "text": "consumer fears about health risks"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The concert was cancelled amid health and safety fears."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are growing fears of water shortages."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fears are growing of a new oil embargo."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Stock markets tumbled amid fears of a new recession."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were fears about the weather impacting attendance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My biggest fear was that my children would get sick."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My worst fears were confirmed."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Our fears proved unfounded."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Public fears about the disease increased."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government is anxious to allay the public's fears."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This incident has fuelled fears of a full-scale war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This stoked fears of financial difficulties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "new fears over terrorism"
                },
                {
                    "text": "new terrorism fears"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to avoid the danger of something happening",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We spoke quietly for fear of waking the guards."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had to run away for fear (that) he might one day kill me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nobody refused for fear of losing their job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wrote under a false name for fear of reprisals."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Danger", "Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "feeling frightened that you might be killed",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you definitely do not want to do something",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Are you coming climbing?’ ‘No fear!’"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make somebody very frightened, especially in order to make them do something",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make somebody be afraid, etc.",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The sound of gunfire struck fear into the hearts of the villagers."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "in a fair way",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They undertook to make their judgement without fear or favour."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɪə(r)/",
                "audio": "fe/fear/fear__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fɪr/",
                "audio": "fe/fear/fear__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fǣr ‘calamity, danger’, fǣran ‘frighten’, also ‘revere’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gevaar and German Gefahr ‘danger’."
}