999英语网 单词
afeared的意思
afeared
['fid]
- adj. 受惊的，恐惧的
- v. 恐惧（afear的过去分词）
英文词源
- afeared (adj.)
- Old English afred, past participle of now-obsolete afear (Old English afran) "to terrify," from a- (1) + fran (see fear (v.)). Used frequently by Shakespeare, but supplanted in literary English after 1700 by afraid (q.v.). It still survives in popular and colloquial speech.