fear for someone/something

Examples of feared

feared

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Perhaps these film-makers feared that the presence of the ' real' would prove too disruptive.
He feared both the loss of secrets and the introduction of lax methods.
Such a system, it was feared, would open the door to 'interference from central quarters'.
She feared death much but felt it was coming soon, which caused a state of urgency in her.
It is thus not clear whether all cases feared possession before or during their illness.
He feared, after having seen everything there was, that nothing would be left to cause surprise.
A prospective study of the relationship between feared consequences of falling and avoidance of activity in community-living older people.
Indeed, while nursing homes were feared by some, others believed that they would have benefits for their peers.
By contrast, only one-third of the patients feared such a development.
He was in favor of obligatory instruction for children because he feared that otherwise parents would exploit them.
They may have feared that the management would tamper with the time.
Nursing homes were both feared and, in a form that met their cultural needs, seen as places that should be built.
They feared that the result could be that they would end up sounding like their students rather than the other way around.
Already they feared that a challenge to those rights might emerge from enlargement.
It feared the inflationary effect of credit expansion.
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