afeared

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English aferd.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

afeared

  1. simple past and past participle of afear

Adjective[edit]

afeared

  1. (dialectal) Afraid.
    • 1886, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet:
      I ain't afeared of anything on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.

Scots[edit]

Adjective[edit]

afeared (comparative mair afeared, superlative maist afeared)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of afeard

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