Fear vs Huddle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between fear and huddle

is that fear is (lb) a strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat while huddle is a dense and disorderly crowd.

As verbs the difference between fear and huddle

is that fear is to cause fear to; to frighten while huddle is to crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

As a adjective fear

is (dialectal) able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

fear

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.

Noun

(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

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Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .

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(lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.

* Bible, (w)

I will put my fear in their hearts.

* Bible, (Psalms)

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Synonyms

* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See also

Derived terms

* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fear

Verb

(en verb)

To cause fear to; to frighten.

* :

Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I greatly fear my money is not safe.

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

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(lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

(lb) Regret.

(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.

(lb) To suspect; to doubt.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Fear you not her courage?

Synonyms

* be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized be * (venerate) be in awe of, revere, venerate

Derived terms

* fear not * God-fearing * never fear

Etymology 2

From (etyl) fere, feore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Adjective

(en adjective)

(dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

hale and fear

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huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)

a dense and disorderly crowd

(American football) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.

Verb

(huddl)

To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.

To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.

To get together and discuss.

* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.

(American football) To form a huddle.

To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

* (John Locke)

Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.

To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on'', ''huddle up'', ''huddle together ).

* J. H. Newman

Huddle up a peace.

* (John Dryden)

Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.

* (Jonathan Swift)

Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.