Usually means: Experiencing fear of potential danger.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. afraid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. afraid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afraid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afraid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. afraid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Afraid, afraid: Wordnik
  7. afraid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. afraid: Wiktionary
  9. afraid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. afraid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. afraid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Afraid, afraid: Dictionary.com
  13. afraid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. afraid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Afraid (David Bowie song), Afraid (The Neighbourhood song), Afraid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Afraid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. afraid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. afraid: Rhymezone
  19. afraid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. afraid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Afraid: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. afraid: Free Dictionary
  23. afraid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. afraid: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. afraid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afraid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afraid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AFRAID: Acronym Finder
  4. afraid: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear.
adjective:  (colloquial) Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation.
adjective:  (used with for) Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).

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