scared
/skɛ(ə)ɹd/ adjective B1- Feeling fear; afraid, frightened. · I’m scared I’ll miss the train.· I got scared silly.
Comparative scareder · Superlative scaredest
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Villefort left her to the care of the women, while old Barrois ran, half-scared, to his master; for nothing frightens old people so much as when death relaxes its vigilance over them for a moment in order to strike some other old person.
Whenever I’ve met a man I’ve been awfully scared; but I just roared at him, and he has always run away as fast as he could go.
The Hare, scared by the noise, awoke and scudded away.
But now that her fierce wolves and her wild crows and her stinging bees were gone, and her slaves had been scared away by the Cowardly Lion, she saw there was only one way left to destroy Dorothy and her friends.
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