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