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Scared   /skɛrd/   Listen
Scared

adjective
1.
Made afraid.  Synonym: frightened.  "Too shocked and scared to move"



Scare

verb
(past & past part. scared; pres. part. scaring)
1.
Cause fear in.  Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten.  "Ghosts could never affright her"
2.
Cause to lose courage.  Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off.



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"Scared" Quotes from Famous Books



... had a scared look. She could not follow him, and that frightened her. It is always terrifying to be left behind. So he ...
— The Creators - A Comedy • May Sinclair

... prevailing characteristic of the superficial life of most men is their absolute unconsciousness of the fact of sin; they neither know it as universal nor as personal. They have never gone deeply enough down into the depths of their own hearts to have come up scared at the ugly things that lie sleeping there, nor have they ever reflected on their own conduct with sufficient gravity to discern its aberrations from the law of right, hence the average man is quite unconscious of sin, ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... cause I knew he'd be going into Temple Camp office on account of the troop getting ready to go to Camp and I knew he'd see you. I'd like to be going up to camp with them, and I'd kind of like to be back in the office, too. I remember how I used to be scared of you and you said you must be worse than the Germans 'cause I wasn't afraid of them. I hope you're working there yet and I'd like to ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... about us, that so long as the old man was at hand, telling us what to do, we all acted chipper and cheerful, but as soon as we'd drifted apart, we grew quieter, and Stevey Todd began to act scared and lost, and was for seeing Spanish cruisers drop out of the air, and for calling the old man continually. Somehow we dropped apart in ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton

... absolutely would not let him go. He seized him by the shoulders, turned him sharply back into the room, and sat him down in a chair. Liputin was positively scared. ...
— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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