Scared

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scare \Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Scaring}.] [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.]
     To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.


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           The noise of thy crossbow
           Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak.
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     {To scare away}, to drive away by frightening.
  
     {To scare up}, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
        [Slang]
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     Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scared
       adj : made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner";
             "too shocked and scared to move" [syn: {frightened}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "scared":
     afeared, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, appalled, fear-struck,
     feared, fearful, frightened, haunted with fear, horrified,
     panicked, panicky, scary, shocked, spooked, startled, terrified,
     terror-stricken