SCARED


Meaning of SCARED in English

1.

If you are ~ of someone or something, you are frightened of them.

I’m certainly not ~ of him...

I was too ~ to move...

Why are you so ~?

= frightened

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ of n, ADJ to-inf

2.

If you are ~ that something unpleasant might happen, you are nervous and worried because you think that it might happen.

I was ~ that I might be sick...

He was ~ of letting us down.

= worried

ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ that, ADJ of -ing

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