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Feared vs Feard - What's the difference?

feared | feard |

As verbs the difference between feared and feard

is that feared is past tense of fear while feard is past tense of fear.

As an adjective feared

is pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.

feared

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (fear)

    • Anagrams

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    feard

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (fear)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Joseph Hocking, title=The Birthright, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We was feard for a long time that you was dead, but you're oal right now. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1874, author=Alexander Barclay, title=The Ship of Fools, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His horned forehead doth make faynt heartes feard . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1609, author=Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, title=The Faithful Shepherdess, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Opinion, that great foole, makes fooles of all, And (once) I feard her till I met a minde Whose grave instructions philosophical), Toss'd it [is, F] like dust upon a march strong winde, He shall for ever my example be, And his embraced doctrine grow in me. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=XXXVIII The second was as Almner of the place, His office was, the hungry for to feed, 335 And thristy give to drinke, a worke of grace: He feard not once him selfe to be in need, Ne car'd to hoord for those whom he did breede: The grace of God he layd up still in store, Which as a stocke he left unto his seede; 340 He had enough, what need him care for more? }}