afeared
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /əˈfɪə(ɹ)d/
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of afear
Adjective

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.



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