Fearfulness: alternatives and connections

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm.

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A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

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The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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The quality or state of being apprehensive.

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A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

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Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

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To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to…

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To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension.

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A sudden brief thrill, shiver or wave of excitement.

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A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

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A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power corresp…

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The act of making timid or fearful or of deterring by threats; the state of being intimidated; as, the voters were kept from the polls by intimidatio…

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A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

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The quality of being pusillanimous; weakness of spirit; cowardliness.

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Nimble; active.

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To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

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One of the small pieces, or splinters, into which a brittle thing is broken by sudden violence; -- generally used in the plural.

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To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.

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Extreme fear; fear that agitates body and mind; violent dread; fright.

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A warbling; a trill.

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The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.

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To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound.

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Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

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Cowardice.

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A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting…

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

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Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive.

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Free from fear.

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Free from fear.

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A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

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A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

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