Fearfully

Definition

fear / fÇǝ(r) / n (က) [U] ေဘးအႏၲရာယ္။ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ျခင္း။ ပူပင္ ျခင္း။ overcome by fear ❍ feel/show no fear ❍ White with fear, she rose to her feet. ❍ The local people live in constant daily fear of violence from young hooligans. ❍ He entered the interview room in fear and trembling (ie feeling very frightened). (ခ) [C] ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ျခင္း။ ပူပင္မႈ။ have genuine/understandable/ well-founded fears ❍ an instinctive fear of heights ❍ The doctor's report confirmed our worst fears. ❍ dismiss sb's fears as irrational ❍ overcome/ allay sb's fears ❍ continuing interest-rate fears. v ၁။ (က) ေၾကာက္သည္။ လန္႔သည္။ fear death/illness ❍ She fears no one. ❍ The plague was greatly feared in the Middle Ages. (ခ) စိုးရိမ္သည္။ လန္႔သည္။ Never fear (ie Don't worry), everything will be all right. ❍ ( fml ) She feared to speak in his presence. ၂။ စိုးရိမ္သည္။ လန္႔သည္။ They feared the worst (ie thought that the worst had happened or would happen). ❍ ‘Are we going to be late?’ ‘I fear so. ’ ❍ I fear (that) he may die. ❏ fear for sb/sth [ PHRV ] စိုးရိမ္သည္။ ေၾကာင့္ၾကသည္။ ေသာကေရာက္သည္။ I fear for their safety in this weather. ❏ fearful / -fl / adj ၁။ ~ (of sth/of doing sth); ~ (that)… စိုးရိမ္ေသာ။ fearful of waking the guards/fearful that we might wake the guards ❍ her fearful eyes. ၂။ ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းေသာ။ ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္ေကာင္း ေသာ။ a fearful road accident. ၃။ ( infml ) အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ He had a fearful row with his wife. ❏ fearfully / -fǝli / adv ေၾကာက္ေၾကာက္လန္႔လန္႔။ ေၾကာက္ခမန္းလိလိ။ glancing fearfully around ❍ fearfully expensive. ❏ fearless adj မေၾကာက္ေသာ။ အေၾကာက္အလန္႔မရိွေသာ။ ရဲရင့္ေသာ။ a fearless mountaineer ❍ supple and fearless in the water. ❏ fearlessly adv မေၾကာက္မလန္႔။ ❏ fearlessness n [U] ရဲရင့္ျခင္း။ သတၱိ။ ❏ fearsome /'fÇǝsǝm/ adj ေၾကာက္မက္ဖြယ္။ a fearsome sight/spectacle ❍ He has a fearsome reputation as a fighter. ❍ ( fig ) a fearsome task (ie one that frightens one because it is difficult). ❏ for fear of sth/of doing sth; for fear (that…) [ IDM ] စိုးရိမ္ျခင္း။ ေရွာင္ရွားလိုျခင္း။ We spoke in whispers for fear of waking the guards/for fear (that) we might wake the guards. ❏ in fear of one's life [ IDM ] အသက္ေဘးကို ငဲ့၍။ ❏ no fear [ IDM ] ( infml ) မစိုးရိမ္ပါႏွင့္။ မပူပါႏွင့္။ ‘Are you coming climbing?’ ‘No fear!’ ❏ put the fear of God into sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ငယ္ထိပ္ ေသြးေရာက္ေအာင္၊ အလြန္အၾကဴးအထူးေၾကာက္ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။

Examples

1. Edward knew it was dangerous
2. but he felt no fear.
3. [fear of] : She eventually managed to overcome her fear of the dark.
4. [in fear] : Martin screamed in fear.
5. [be filled with fear] : I was suddenly filled with fear.
6. [shake/tremble with fear] : She was shaking with fear.
7. A meeting was set up to try to allay workers’ fears.
8. [fear about] : There are fears about the safety of the nuclear plant.
9. [fear of] : This latest case has raised fears of an epidemic.
10. [fear for] : He expressed fears for his missing wife’s safety.
11. [fear that] : Sandbags were placed along the shore amid fears that the lake would overflow.
12. [fear of] : There’s no fear of becoming bored in a place like this.
13. [fear (that)] : I don’t think there’s any fear that that will happen.