SCARED

frightened, scared

(adjective) made afraid; “the frightened child cowered in the corner”; “too shocked and scared to move”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

scared (comparative more scared or scareder, superlative most scared or scaredest)

Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

Synonyms

• See afraid

Verb

scared

simple past tense and past participle of scare

Anagrams

• Cerdas, Dacres, Des Arc, caders, cadres, cedars, crased, decars, e-cards, ecards, sacred

Source: Wiktionary


SCARE

Scare, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] Etym: [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun , shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.]

Definition: To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening.

– To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

Syn.

– To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.

Scare, n.

Definition: Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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