Meanings of atavistic fear in inglês

Murk felt the tiny hairs of his forearms straightening in atavistic fear.

The raptors had an atavistic fear of the laboratory, the place of their birth.

She felt it too, the atavistic fear lurking at the back of her mind.

Deep down we have an atavistic fear of the forest and its beasts and mysteries.

Pon-lor could not suppress a shiver of atavistic fear.

Everyone lurched to their feet in disgust, alarm, and, it had to be admitted, atavistic fear.

The old atavistic fear of the dark and the mysterious dangers that threatened our savage ancestors?

Dalehouse had a moment's atavistic fear.

He saw the signs raised against evil and a kind of atavistic fear in the gazes of all.

Hannah felt overcome by a sudden atavistic fear at the sight of the construction robot crouching in the corridor with bloodstains on its cowling.

Before this great unknown, they kneel and yield, an atavistic reaction to atavistic fears.

The belated efforts to redress these wrongs meet with hostility and the atavistic fears of the dispossessor.

The sight of so many strong young men in Budapest or Calais stirs atavistic fears: we like visible victims.