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adj. VERBS be, be running (figurative), feel, look, seem, sound They had their opponent running scared. | get ADV. dead, downright, extremely, really, shit (taboo), very | a bit, a little, pretty, quite, rather | just, plain He wasn't ill, Sophie decided. He was just plain scared. PREP. about It's only a little injection. It's nothing to be scared about. | at feeling a little scared at the thought of the operation | of I'm really scared of heights. PHRASES scared out of your wits, scared stiff (informal), scared to death (informal)
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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scared
adverbs
very/really scared
• By this time I was feeling really scared.
quite scared
• Some of the children were quite scared.
a bit/little scared
• I was always a little scared of my father.
verbs
feel scared
• She was beginning to feel a bit scared.
look scared
• What’s the matter? You look scared.
get scared
(= start to feel scared )
• It was now completely dark and I was getting scared.
phrases
scared to death
(= extremely scared )
• He looked scared to death.
scared stiff
informal (= extremely scared )
• I was scared stiff of going down those cellar steps.
scared witless/out of your wits
informal (= extremely scared )
• She admitted she was scared witless.
be running scared
(= feel scared, especially because someone might catch you or defeat you )
• The opposition were running scared.
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