Meaning

1 senses

  1. To spread fear.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Contrary to decades of fearmongering over the dangers of cities, city dwellers tend to live longer than people in small towns.

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  2. There's a lot of fearmongering over autonomous vehicles taking away trucking jobs, but the technology is far from ready for mass implementation.

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

Back-formation from fearmongering.

Back-formation from fearmongering.

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Forms

fearmongers, fearmongering, fearmongered, fearmongered
Base formfearmonger · to fearmonger
3rd person singularfearmongers
Present participlefearmongering
Past simplefearmongered
Past participlefearmongered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfearmonger
he, she, itfearmongers

Past simpleLesson

all personsfearmongered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave fearmongered
he, she, ithas fearmongered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill fearmonger

Word family

1 related words
Derivedfearmongerer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fearfulfearfullyfearlessfearlessnessfearsomeB2feasibilityfeasiblefeastB1
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