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# afeard

«afeard» in Mova's school dictionary: **Afraid; frightened** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (no forms; old use, in fairy tales)

### meaning for a pupil

Afraid; frightened. Afeard is an old word for afraid, used in folk tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afeard/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in folk tales, a character who is scared of something, often pretending to be afraid

### examples

- She pretended to be afeard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afeard/#x1)
- Be not afeard, little one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afeard/#x2)
- The boy was afeard of the dark wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afeard/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «afeard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/afeard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.