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frightened

adjective as in very scared

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"She was in the house on her own, I think she felt frightened," he said.

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No one goes to Cannes expecting to be frightened by a film about a long-dead British writer.

A community just a few miles from here, but also all over the UK, is terrorised, frightened and grieving.

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Then the door opened, and there were two women, who were so surprised and frightened when they saw me that they started screaming.

The lawyers say a frightened Mas'ud did as he was told when he was questioned by another man the next evening.

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