afeard
adjective
afeared
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a variation of
afeard.
Example Sentences
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It included an episode in which Pepys was "afeared to be seen" in a summer suit he had just bought "because it was too fine with the gold lace at the hands".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
I am afeared, Being in night, all this is but a dream, Too flattering sweet to be substantial.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2016
Sir Kenneth Branagh as Isambard Kingdom Brunel in a stovepipe hat channelled Shakespeare's Prospero: "Be not afeared: the isle is full of noise."
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2012
Maybe it ain’t nothing but being afeared they’re gonna have to hear about all the bad things the person they loved had went through whilst knowing there waren’t nothing they could do ’bout it.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Don’t you think if getting afeared and wishing something to happen would make it true, that these here chains would’ve turned to dust long ago?
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
