Usually means: Feeling frightened by perceived danger.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word scared:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. scared: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scared: Merriam-Webster
  3. scared: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scared: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scared: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scared, scared: Wordnik
  7. scared: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scared: Wiktionary
  9. scared: Dictionary.com
  10. scared: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Scared (John Lennon song), Scared (The Tragically Hip song), Scared (disambiguation), Scared, Scared: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Scared: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. scared: Rhymezone
  14. Scared: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. scared: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. scared: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scared: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. scared: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. scared: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scared: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SCARED: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. scared: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scared: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See scare as well.)

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adjective:  Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.

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