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scared
/skɛ(ə)ɹd/
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What does scared mean?
adjective
- Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.
verb
- 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.
Glimpses of such sights Have scared me, like the revels through a door Of some strange house of idols at its rites!
More book examples (3)
He unfurls the umbrella in the face of the bull or dog, and the brute turns round quite scared, and runs away.
As soon as they are liberated, the Mason-bees flee as though scared, some in one direction, some in exactly the opposite direction.
The girls trembled and looked at each other with scared faces, and then again at the hideous being which crouched before them.