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scared

adj
/skɛəd/UK/skɛ(ə)ɹd/US/skeːd/

Etymology

From scare + -ed.

  1. derived from *(s)ker-✻ — “to swing, jump, move”
  2. derived from *skirzijaną✻ — “to shoo, scare off”
  3. derived from skirra — “to frighten; to shrink away from, shun; to prevent, avert”
  4. inherited from scaren
  5. suffixed as scared — “scare + ed”

Definitions

  1. Feeling fear

    Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

    • I’m scared I’ll miss the train.
    • I got scared silly.
    • The child was really scared of the dark.

  2. simple past and past participle of scare

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA