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scared

/skɛ(ə)ɹd/

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What does scared mean?

adjective

  1. Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of scare

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IPA pronunciation

/skɛ(ə)ɹd/

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Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.
D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceSons and LoversProject Gutenberg ebook #217
Glimpses of such sights Have scared me, like the revels through a door Of some strange house of idols at its rites!
Robert Browning; Hiram CorsonAn Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's PoetryProject Gutenberg ebook #260
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He unfurls the umbrella in the face of the bull or dog, and the brute turns round quite scared, and runs away.
George BorrowWild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryProject Gutenberg ebook #648
As soon as they are liberated, the Mason-bees flee as though scared, some in one direction, some in exactly the opposite direction.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Mason-BeesTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #2884
The girls trembled and looked at each other with scared faces, and then again at the hideous being which crouched before them.
S. (Sabine) Baring-GouldThe Book of Were-WolvesProject Gutenberg ebook #5324