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adj.very scared

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Exhausted and frightened, they were forced to decide how to go about saving themselves.

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A female investigative journalist was severely harassed and temporarily silenced by such activity, and more recently, a female poet and novelist was frightened and shamed.

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The agents sat at a table, across from Tanvir, who was frightened and spoke poor English.

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It turned out to be a very big and very frightened stray dog.

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Sometimes there would be a new visitor to the island, like a wayward sailor named Gulliver or a delightfully frightened ghost named Wisp, who needed my help.

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“I went into a great passion and frightened my mother into a fit,” said Wardle.

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His silence had frightened her: what if he should resent on her the cruel words spoken by Dr. Ashton?

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Though frightened to death, I refused to part with my reserve and made ready to go and take command of it at break of dawn.

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He went out into the garden, and the rustling of the laurel-bushes frightened him.

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The submarine scare is full on; the beastly things have frightened us more than all the Turks and all their German guns.

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