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| NOUN: | 1. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, panic, terror, trepidation. Slang : cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See FEAR. 2. Extreme hostility and dislike: abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, detestation, hate, hatred, loathing, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion, revulsion. See LOVE. 3. Informal. An object of extreme dislike: abhorrence, abomination, anathema, aversion, bête noire, bugbear, detestation, execration, hate. See LOVE.
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