frightened
adjective
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Definition of frightened
: feeling fear : made to feel afraid a badly frightened child The farmer was hurrying out into the road, and his wife was standing at the gate, looking very frightened.— Anna Sewell
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Synonyms
affrighted, afraid, aghast, alarmed, fearful, horrified, horror-struck, hysterical (also hysteric), scared, scary, shocked, spooked, terrified, terrorized
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