| fear | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. fear, fearfulness, fright | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight). |
| ~ emotion | any strong feeling. |
| ~ alarm, consternation, dismay | fear resulting from the awareness of danger. |
| ~ creeps | a feeling of fear and revulsion.; "he gives me the creeps" |
| ~ frisson, quiver, shudder, tingle, chill, shiver, thrill | an almost pleasurable sensation of fright.; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" |
| ~ horror | intense and profound fear. |
| ~ hysteria | excessive or uncontrollable fear. |
| ~ affright, panic, terror | an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety. |
| ~ panic attack, scare | a sudden attack of fear. |
| ~ stage fright | fear that affects a person about to face an audience. |
| ~ apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread | fearful expectation or anticipation.; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" |
| ~ timidity, timidness, timorousness | fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions. |
| ~ intimidation | the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid. |
| ~ cold sweat | the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. care, concern, fear | an anxious feeling.; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" |
| ~ anxiety | a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. awe, fear, reverence, veneration | a feeling of profound respect for someone or something.; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" |
| ~ emotion | any strong feeling. |
| v. (emotion) | 4. fear | be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event.; "I fear she might get aggressive" |
| ~ worry | be worried, concerned, anxious, troubled, or uneasy.; "I worry about my job" |
| v. (emotion) | 5. dread, fear | be afraid or scared of; be frightened of.; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!" |
| ~ panic | be overcome by a sudden fear.; "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away" |
| v. (emotion) | 6. fear | be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement.; "I fear I won't make it to your wedding party" |
| ~ regret | express with regret.; "I regret to say that you did not gain admission to Harvard" |
| v. (emotion) | 7. fear | be uneasy or apprehensive about.; "I fear the results of the final exams" |
| v. (emotion) | 8. fear, revere, reverence, venerate | regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of.; "Fear God as your father"; "We venerate genius" |
| ~ esteem, respect, prise, prize, value | regard highly; think much of.; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity" |
| ~ saint, enshrine | hold sacred. |
| ~ worship | show devotion to (a deity).; "Many Hindus worship Shiva" |
| loaf | | |
| n. (food) | 1. loaf, loaf of bread | a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating. |
| ~ bread, breadstuff, staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked. |
| ~ heel | one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread. |
| ~ french loaf | a loaf of French bread. |
| ~ meat loaf, meatloaf | a baked loaf of ground meat. |
| n. (food) | 2. loaf | a quantity of food (other than bread) formed in a particular shape.; "meat loaf"; "sugar loaf"; "a loaf of cheese" |
| ~ solid food, food | any solid substance (as opposed to liquid) that is used as a source of nourishment.; "food and drink" |
| ~ loaf sugar, sugar loaf, sugarloaf | a large conical loaf of concentrated refined sugar. |
| ~ pound cake | rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour. |
| ~ haslet | heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised. |
| ~ headcheese | sausage or jellied loaf made of chopped parts of the head meat and sometimes feet and tongue of a calf or pig. |
| ~ lunch meat, luncheon meat | any of various sausages or molded loaf meats sliced and served cold. |
| ~ scrapple | scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying. |
| v. (stative) | 3. arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time | be lazy or idle.; "Her son is just bumming around all day" |
| ~ laze, idle, slug, stagnate | be idle; exist in a changeless situation.; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" |
| v. (stative) | 4. footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry | be about.; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ prowl, lurch | loiter about, with no apparent aim. |
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