Read full poem →No place for sound within their hearing,
No room to hope, no time for fearing,
No lips to laugh, no lids for tears.
Dictionary Entry
To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
In a Sentence
“I fear the worst will happen.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
lest fearingfearing withoutfearing perhaps
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Poetry examples for “fearing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He draws, and does his strolte detesl.
Fearing the ficBh, untimely rnowed,
To iiira a fate as black forebode.
Read full poem →Ah, how oft on hard doors hung I engraved,
From no man's reading fearing to be saved!
But, till the keeper[346] went forth, I forget not,
Read full poem →His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
I visited his bed,
Read full poem →His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
I visited his bed,
Read full poem →Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering,
fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
Read full poem →Lo! a new generation of girls
Laughed at me, not fearing me,
And I had no more exciting adventures
Read full poem →Mother of Song, being sown of Zeus upon a dream of Death).
Fearing to pass unvisited some place
And later learn, too late, how all the while,
Read full poem →Nor will you insure disgrace
By fearing what you want.
Freedom has a world of sides,
Read full poem →Out of cloudland we are steering;
After groping, after fearing,
Into starlight we come trailing,