Definition of afeared

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afeared

verb

Simple past and past participle of to afear.

adjective

A regional variation of afraid.

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“Why, that's true, sir,” he said; “though how you come to
know it, Heaven only knows. Ye see, when I got up to the door
it was so still and so lonesome, that I thought I'd be none
the worse for some one with me. I ain't afeared of anything
on this side o' the grave; but I thought that maybe it was him
that died o' the typhoid inspecting the drains what killed him.
The thought gave me a kind o' turn, and I walked back to the
gate to see if I could see Murcher's lantern, but there
wasn't no sign of him nor of anyone else.”
<BR>
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet
</blockquote>

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