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12 avr. 2014 · Therefore, the word "fear" can be conjugated as a verb without the need for a preposition. At first glance, I could read the sentence as "She fears death" if it's something the person is continually fearful of. If you want to state that the person had—but no longer has—a fear of death, then it would be "She had feared death."
11 oct. 2010 · Oct 11, 2010. #3. I don't care for either one. Fear of implies he's afraid of himself and his demons. Fear about sounds right if it's Fears about: "I think he was finally able to articulate his fears about himself (do I smell bad; am I too compulsive; do I hurt people who only want to help me) and his demons (fear of commitment; compulsion to ...
24 mai 2021 · English - U.S., Chinese - Mandarin. May 24, 2021. #2. Fear (as a feeling towards something, i.e. shaking in fear) is uncountable, but fear (as a concern, or as specific instance of it, i.e. a fear of heights, fear for someone's safety) is countable. Depends on the context.
11 nov. 2009 · Φοβία (Fov i a, f.), is the only feminine noun pertaining to fear (it of course means phobia), but it describes a pathological, groundless, irrational fear (e.g. agoraphobia: fear of wide open spaces and crowds, arachnophobia: fear of spiders etc.). [I apologise for my rambling]
17 janv. 2017 · Hello guys. I am confused with the phrase below. 'a nervous tension that came perilous close to fear'. In this phrase, 'close' is an adverb and 'perilous' is an adjective. Does 'perilous' modify 'close' or 'came'? Does 'come perilous close to fear' share the same meaning of 'come very close to...
18 sept. 2009 · Constanţa. Română - România. Sep 18, 2009. #1. Usually it's "strike fear into someone's heart," but can we also say impose fear into someone's heart? Or impose fear upon someone? Any idea if/how "fear" can work with "impose?" "Inflict" is usually used with a concrete nouns so it can't work with "fear" because it's abstract, right? B.
24 mars 2018 · Mar 24, 2018. #4. But c and d above should not have commas. The subject shouldn't be separated from the verb (unless there's an intervening parenthetical expression). (e) The fear, of not being interesting enough to be read, seems to have stopped following me. (f) The fear, of not being interesting enough, seems to have stopped following me.
11 nov. 2021 · Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. What does " little-death " mean here? I find that “La petite mort ("The little death") is a metaphor for a sexual orgasm.”, but I am not sure. In my country,it is translated to "a small god of death",I thing it must be wrong.
14 mai 2021 · I froze with fear. vs. I was frozen with fear. Is there any difference between them meaning-wise? The active verb is used in the first sentence, and the passive verb is used in the second one. But I can see those two sentences in the dictionary. :confused:
May 10, 2016. #2. The verb to fear usually does not take the preposition from as a complement. E.g. you could say, He feared the lion ("He was afraid of the lion"), but you would not say He feared from the lion. Instead, from is used when you want to specify the source of what you fear: e.g., the sentence He feared a reprimand from the boss ...
