An unpleasant, usually localised physical sensation that is often the result of an injury, disease or other ailment.
A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion.
fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
be afraid or scared of; be frightened of; "I fear the winters in Moscow"; "We should not fear the Communists!"
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"