fear

[feer]

–noun

1. a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the  threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

2. a specific instance of or propensity  for such a feeling: an abnormal fear of heights.

3. concern or anxiety; solicitude: a fear for someone’s safety.

4. reverential awe, especially toward god.

5. that which causes a feeling of being afraid; that of which a person is afraid: Cancer is a common fear.

–verb (used with object)
6. to regard with fear; be afraid of.

7. to have reverential awe of.

8. Archaic . to experience fear in (oneself).

–verb (used without object)
9. to have fear; be afraid.