Meanings of deep-seated fear in English

Shannon could swim well, but he had a deep-seated fear of the water.

In the morning his panic had faded but the deep-seated fear was still with him.

Charlotte had a deep-seated fear of sex and was determined never to have a child.

If that doesn't turn you into a writer with a morbid fascination with, and deep-seated fear of, the natural world nothing will.

The real basis for all deep-seated fear about life is the fear that one will not be dealt with either lovingly or justly.

Not out of laziness but because of a deep-seated fear that she might have lost her ability since the last time she wrote anything.

Roger said that Badoer knew of Henry VIII's " deep-seated fear of disease" -particularly the Black Death, which may have claimed his grandmother's life.