in fear for one's/someone's life

: an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger

: an instance of this emotion

: a state marked by this emotion

: to be afraid of : expect with alarm

: to have a reverential awe of

: frighten

: some person : somebody

: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body

: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings

: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction

: of or relating to animate being

: lifelong

: using a living model