greatest fear

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandfear

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, 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 ofgreatandfearfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I knew that being alone was now hergreatestfear.
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Indeed, surveys of older individuals routinely show that loss of mental capacity is among theirgreatestfear.
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As the correspondence continued it was revealed that hisgreatestfearwas that the court's policies would bring disorder and dissolution into the land.
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We need to be able to confront fears and anxieties, because in many instances thegreatestfearis fear itself.
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Mygreatestfearat the moment is of another kind of "ism," which has not yet been mentioned in this debate.
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Surely, fear of the unknown is thegreatestfearof all.
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It produces what is probably thegreatestfearman has today, which is that it is cancer producing.
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After all, what is thegreatestfearof the ordinary man?
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Mygreatestfearis of this growing present derogation to parliamentary sovereignty.
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And mygreatestfearis lest the comprehensive school may accentuate the very evil it proposes to cure.
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That must be thegreatestfearof the parents and grandparents of such children.
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That was thegreatestfearin my mind.
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It is our old people who have thegreatestfearof crime, even though the figures show that crime is actually falling.
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Mygreatestfearwas that there would be immediate and brutal retaliation.
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Thegreatestfearin the wallpaper industry is that, because of a lack of materials, men will have to be discharged.
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Ourgreatestfearis that these aspects, important though they are, will obscure points which we believe are much more important.
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That is thegreatestfearthat people will have as a result of this debate.
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Thegreatestfear, of course, is that this will be done by foreign banks and other foreign money.
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It is necessary to say, in these circumstances, that perhaps thegreatestfearthat we have is fear itself.
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