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SCARED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made afraid

Example:

too shocked and scared to move

Synonyms:

frightened; scared

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb scare

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 Context examples: 

He had always laughed at what he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon himself.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thomas Mugridge turned a pitiable scared face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Don't you be scared, my bonnie boy," said Lord John, patting the matted head in front of him.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And the lawyer, scared by the thought, brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, least by chance some Jack-in-the-Box of an old iniquity should leap to light there.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But I looked so serious, that Dora left off shaking her curls, and laid her trembling little hand upon my shoulder, and first looked scared and anxious, then began to cry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Perhaps I have, but I'm scared just the same," said the Lion.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The men were scared every time we turned our electric lamp on them, and fell on their knees and prayed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But the trifles cost more than one would imagine, and when she cast up her accounts at the end of the month the sum total rather scared her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I have tried to help her, but I daresay I did it clumsily, and scared her from it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)