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Fear

/fɪə/

A feeling of distress or worry caused by the possibility of danger or harm

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She had a fear of dogs.Fear can protect us from danger.

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The word fear comes from Old English fǣr meaning sudden danger, derived from Proto-West Germanic *farą, which can be traced back to Proto-Germanic faraz, also related to the Latin periculum.

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