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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scared
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scared of heights
▪ Rachel had always been scared of heights.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ Now most of her contacts were out-of-town businessmen, far more scared of comebacks than she'd ever have to be.
▪ Much more scared by yourself than you would be with me.
▪ And the more scared you are of her, the more perfect she becomes.
▪ I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before.
▪ For some reason he was more scared than I was, and I was very frightened.
really
▪ He says they're really scared.
▪ I ain't really scared of the dark, not normally, but looking out there, it's a bit scary.
▪ I was really scared, the atmosphere became very stiff but nobody said anything.
▪ Then he came into the bedroom to see me and I got really scared.
▪ I became really scared and then he started walking towards me.
so
▪ I guess I had to see you, drawled Jay, because I was so scared of seeing you.
▪ They're not so scared of things as we were.
▪ And he's so scared of ageing that he tries every anti-wrinkle cream available.
▪ She didn't know why she felt so scared.
▪ Why on earth is his Department so scared of answering questions on this subject?
▪ Male speaker I was so scared of spiders.
▪ And why is Washington so scared?
▪ He was so scared that he wasn't even thinking straight.
too
▪ His own mum and his Auntie Ethel were sometimes too scared to go out of the house.
▪ There was no one she could discuss it with, for Hoomey was too scared, and no one else knew.
▪ But I was too scared to go out.
▪ Down the pillar of rock, head afire and limbs like ice. Too scared to look down.
▪ My period was a week late but I was too scared to have a test.
▪ He was too scared to be otherwise.
▪ At this point in time the bishop of Tours was apparently too scared to state the truth openly.
▪ It was the pot of white paint that dropped + had fallen on Nutmeg but he had been too scared to notice.
very
▪ My third friend was very scared and wanted to go at once, feeling that we were in definite danger from something.
▪ Poor Nutmeg was very scared, he began to run as fast as he could.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
afraid/frightened/scared etc of your own shadow
be running scared
▪ Their new software has the competition running scared.
▪ Then why is it that Chretien appears to be running scared?
▪ To me, ti just looks like the fools are running scared.
▪ Whenever managers were laid off, he sensed in the ranks ever-higher levels of anxiety Even those who remained were running scared.
be scared witless
bored/scared/worried stiff
▪ And I was scared stiff about having lied to Mel about being single when he hired me.
▪ Cis, who knew about it, was scared stiff.
▪ He was scared stiff, thought a ghastly mistake had been made.
▪ He was very naturally scared stiff of using up all his remaining petrol and making a bad landing.
▪ Mabel was by now scared stiff and frozen cold.
▪ Poor kid, thought Alice, he's scared stiff.
▪ We looked at each other, scared stiff, but we followed Mrs Bullivant upstairs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I hate reading out my work in class - I'm scared that people are going to laugh at me.
▪ I stood still, scared to move forward and scared to go back.
▪ I think they were all scared of offending him.
▪ She's always been scared of heights.
▪ The first time I went on a motorcycle I was really scared.
▪ When he came back he looked scared stiff, as if he'd seen a ghost.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was too scared to be otherwise.
▪ Now most of her contacts were out-of-town businessmen, far more scared of comebacks than she'd ever have to be.
▪ She didn't know why she felt so scared.
▪ She says she gets nervous whenever there's a car behind her, and she's scared of speed.
▪ Then he came into the bedroom to see me and I got really scared.
▪ There are people who encouraged me not to worry, not to be scared, but it's hard.
▪ Why on earth is his Department so scared of answering questions on this subject?
▪ You're scared of him, aren't you, whoever he is?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scared

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.

The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.
--Shak.

To scare away, to drive away by frightening.

To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game.

Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scared

past participle adjective from scare (v.). Scared stiff first recorded 1900; scared shitless is from 1936. Scaredy-cat "timid person" first attested 1906.

Wiktionary
scared

  1. Having fear; afraid, frightened. v

  2. (en-past of: scare)

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WordNet
scared

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

Wikipedia
Scared (film)

Rab Nong Sayong Kwan (a.k.a. Scared) is a 2005 Thai horror film directed by Pakphum Wonjinda. In this movie, a group of freshmen on a road trip survive an accident, only to end up in an abandoned town where they are hunted down and killed one by one.

Scared (disambiguation)

Scared is to have fear.

Scared may also refer to:

  • Scared!, a paranormal reality TV series
  • Scared (film), a 2005 Thai horror film
  • Scared Records, an American record label
  • "Scared", a song by Three Days Grace from Three Days Grace
Scared (The Tragically Hip song)

"Scared" is the fifth single by The Tragically Hip from the band's 1994 album, Day for Night. The song peaked at #57 on the Canadian RPM Singles chart.

The song is featured in the 2006 Canadian comedy film, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie.

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Usage examples of "scared".

He was like an acrophobe edging along a precipitous path, scared to look down, afraid of losing his balance and falling accidentally, afraid too of the impulse that might lead him to plunge purposefully into the void.

Had Rossi actually looked through them himself, or had he merely had time to list the possibilities in that archive before being scared away from it?

He had scared Bester the moment they met, when he had fixed him with those cold, dark eyes.

Harry nodded, with no hint of his usual braggadocio, looking like nothing more than a scared little boy.

He preached, favoring Moses and Abraham, and Burnside scared himself half to death.

When I was a litigator, I actually saw lawyers who were scared of stepping into court.

Coker Minimus, whose round scared eyes looked out over the top of the sheet.

He acted scared, but back of all that nigra shout was something cunning.

He was conscious of her, bolt upright and motionless as a scared cat, on the bench as he crossed through the yard again, down the blue tunnel of passway, and out to Rue Burgundy.

Just then Garian and Perd Ambur pounded in at a dead run, breathless and looking scared.

Daniel Perdue, for the first time, realized how close he came to being killed, and it scared him.

Robin and Periwinkle, Serena and Zachariah seemed tireless, but Wiggins got sore feet quite soon, and felt scared and complained, so Maria carried him.

Ham-hock Piney remained rigidly silent, too scared to even tremble as lustily as he would have liked.

Women and girls flocked around them, but the Cleary returned heroes tried to escape at every op- portunity, more scared than they had been on any field of war.

The Preost fit it on her head and she was almost too scared to move under the unfamiliar weight.