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SCARED
frightened, scared
(adjective) made afraid; āthe frightened child cowered in the cornerā; ātoo shocked and scared to moveā
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
Word of the Day
22 February 2025
ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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