growing fear

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandfear

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growing
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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fear
noun[C or U]
uk
/fɪər/us
/fɪr/
an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandfearfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But thegrowingfearof crime is only one reason why ' jungle justice ' may spread.
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The effects ofgrowingfeargo beyond crop damage.
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The second chapter focuses on developments in crime prevention with a discussion of multi-agency initiatives, legislative developments, and the public'sgrowingfearof children.
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There is agrowingfearamong many working journalists that their membership of a closed-shop situation could be used to compromise their journalistic integrity.
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There isgrowingfear, and evidence, that resources are being withdrawn from patients on the basis of age alone.
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There is agrowingfearthat we shall be faced with an increase in the size of lorries.
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Secondly, we cannot increase production if we are to have agrowingfearof unemployment.
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Those of us of a certain age lived through the 1930s when there was a real andgrowingfearof war.
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Are they not aware that within the mining industry agrowingfearand anxiety as to their future affects thousands of our citizens?
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There isgrowingfear, to say the least, that it will have a highly inflationary effect.
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That is thegrowingfearin the minds of many practically minded people.
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Is he aware that there is agrowingfearfor the first time in that coalfield about what the future will bring?
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There is little wonder also that there is agrowingfearof an accelerated pit closure programme.
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Similar demonstrations are taking place in other countries because there is agrowingfearand awareness of the dangers of nuclear warfare.
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The third problem is agrowingfearof crime, both on trains and at stations.
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There is agrowingfearthat nuclear war is becoming probable, not just possible.
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By this time the girl was eight months pregnant and there was agrowingfearthat her child would be born in prison.
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There is a real andgrowingfearand outrage that the proliferation of mixed wards will, in due course, eliminate any margin of personal choice.
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The bank, dominated by thegrowingfearthat the increased volume of money wouldipso factoresult in inflation, refused to play the classical gold standard game.
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