Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Afraid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with fear; frightened; afraid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Afraid.
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- adjective archaic
afraid
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective a pronunciation of afraid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I'd like to go along, but I'm afeard it's me for the mountains till the end.
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But once thot farm is mine I wull no be afeard ony longer.
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When I was a young men I used tull be afeard thot the owners would guv me the sack.
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A 27-tonne bell inscribed with a line from Shakespeare's The Tempest – "Be not afeard: the isle is full of noises" – will form the centrepiece of the ceremony, and Cavendish is one of the main contenders to lead out the British team.
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He's a nature lover if ever there was one, an 'he's afeard of cities.
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Dunno….ai fyndz teh pooter mausies nawt liek teh kitteh furz oar teh dusst…bof ub demz cawnstant inn mai haos ai iz afeard.
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So then they laughed harder than ever, and said they should be afeard to speak to her, and a deal more I can't call to mind.
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Whether it were really Odysseus or not, I am afeard.
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“I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their argument?”
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'She need not be afeard of it, however,' said the third, 'for 'twill never be no worse.
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