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Meanings of scared in English

Made afraid.

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Examples for "frightened"
1
The frightened manager of the Red Spark was in the control room.
Wandl the Invader
2
The idea of being seen frightened me; it just didn't stop me.
After midnight
3
It's happened often enough that they aren't frightened by it any longer.
Knife of dreams
4
She had good intentions, but she wanted her friends to be frightened.
Proven guilty
5
In fact, the idea of doing so frightened him quite a lot.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
Usage of scared in English
1
The very idea of Mr Brown in power scared the Daily Express.
The Guardian
2
The girls were not in the least scared by the wolfish concert.
Woman on the American Frontier / A Valuable and Authentic Histor...
3
But I was scared to ask in case he hadn't seen anything.
Dead until dark
4
The problem is that they are often scared of the wrong things.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
5
But the crisis has scared off visitors, denting Kashmir's ailing tourism industry.
Reuters
6
The scared, hunted look in his eyes now dominated the whole face.
Three John Silence Stories
7
I mean I was scared, of course, but that's not the point.
Revolutionary Road
8
Question: My five-year-old son has recently become scared and worried at bedtime.
The Irish Times
9
Doctors are scared of alternative medicine: they feel deeply threatened by it.
The Irish Times
10
There is something in the wind, and those fellows are scared stiff.
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
11
As a result, the students I wanted to meet were scared off.
Julian
12
The other lifts a limb and the scared visitor hurries down again.
The Life of the Spider
13
The light from the cliff sank and rose behind his scared face.
The Ship of Stars
14
Both one and the other were evidently scared by the glittering balloon.
Snow Shoes and Canoes / Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in th...
15
High price expectations scared many bidders away, two private equity sources said.
Reuters
16
It also allowed me to understand what it means to be scared.
Reuters
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