Fear and Start

Fear

Fear verb - To experience concern or anxiety.

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Start and fear are semantically related in action topic. In some cases you can use "Start" instead the word "Fear" as a verb or a noun, when it comes to topics like cower, feel alarm.

Nearby Words: fearful, fearless, fearsome, fearfully, fearlessness

Start

Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).

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Antonyms for Start

Fear and start are semantically related in cower topic. Sometimes you can use "Fear" instead the word "Start" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: started, startled, starting, starter, startup

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How words are described

good	good fear	good start
public	public fear	public start
complete	complete fear	complete start
original	original fear	original start
Other adjectives: initial, true, reasonable, strong, actual, real, massive, big, great, huge, bad, main, new, sudden.

Common collocations

fire	fear fire	start fire
life	fear life	start life
people	fear people	start people
time	fear time	start time
Other words: war.

Both words in one sentence

Even after the Games are over and the rule of Snow has been overthrown it takes fifteen years for her to get over that fear and start a family.

Source: Adult Fear / Literature
Let this troper just say this: when you start approaching your son, telling everyone you're going home to "play" with him, and it succeeds in making him tremble with fear and start staggering backwards while he weakly fights back as you approach, it can only mean one thing...

Source: Memetic Molester / Video Games
Chuckie didn't start out as being afraid of clowns and was implied to obtain the fear from witnessing Didi's fear of them in "Reptar's Revenge".

Source: Western Animation / Rugrats

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