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A person who deliberately promotes fear, often by exaggerating threats.
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- political fearmonger
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The fearmonger repeated the unverified rumor.
The crowd challenged the fearmonger’s claims.
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Word forms
- Base
- fearmonger
- Past tense
- fearmongered
- Past participle
- fearmongered
- Present participle
- fearmongering
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Usage notes
Primary category: fear. Forms: Singular fearmonger; plural fearmongers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: fearmongers.
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