SCARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scared mean? 

• SCARED (adjective)
  The adjective SCARED has 1 sense:

1. made afraid

  Familiarity information: SCARED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made afraid

Synonyms:

frightened; scared

Context example:

too shocked and scared to move

Similar:

afraid (filled with fear or apprehension)

 Context examples 

A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she might well be, he went on more gently: Oh, little miss, my dear, do not fear me.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

God bless her, she is as easily scared as a bird, said I. It might be!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The porter was so scared that he was going to fetch me, but Godfrey stopped him, had a drink of water, and pulled himself together.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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 Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He rose, and the two long lines of brothers followed his example, looking sideways with scared faces at the angry prelate.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scared look faded from her eyes, and her agitated features smoothed into their usual commonplace.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But sleep did not afford me respite from thought and misery; my dreams presented a thousand objects that scared me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"I've been so scared and worried, I don't want to have anything to do with lovers for a long while, perhaps never," answered Meg petulantly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the squirrel was as badly scared.

(White Fang, by Jack London)