fearing

Verb

Present participle of fear.

Adjective

(not comparable)

Exhibiting fear.
Showing profound respect or deference.

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She didn't try to test the portals, fearing they wouldn't work.
He would have embraced her but, blushing, she stepped aside fearing to be rumpled.
Not fearing for my life is a total turn on, she retorted.
He'd dreaded his first steps on his planet, fearing it, too, would've lost faith in him.
The offer of French assistance, made after the proclamation of the republic in the spring of 1848, had been rejected mainly because France, fearing that the creation of a strong Italian state would be a danger to her, would have demanded the cession of Nice and Savoy, which the king refused to consider.

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