scared

[skaird]

adjective

1. filled with fear, terror, or dread, often suddenly; frightened; alarmed.

   The doctor provided not only physical treatment but also moral guidance for scared patients with terminal diagnoses.

   I came into college as a scared freshman and left as a confident, competent adult.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of scare.

Other Word Forms

• unscared adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scared¹

scare ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Now years later, all the attention in the past two days from "people from India, many of them journalists", has left her scared.

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Shares of DoorDash Inc. tumbled 17.5% on Thursday, marking their worst percentage drop ever in a single day, after the delivery platform’s spending plans announced a day earlier scared away investors.

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It’s possible the waiter got scared and never used the pills, or maybe he got fired before he had the chance.

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In the past, they had scared off the occasional whale, but they’d never faced an army of whales.

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Mr Moss reads from Mr Rudakubana's statement, which said he and his wife were "very scared" of his son.

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