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Feared vs Afeared - What's the difference?

feared | afeared |

As adjectives the difference between feared and afeared

is that feared is pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others while afeared is (dialectal) afraid.

As verbs the difference between feared and afeared

is that feared is (fear) while afeared is (afear).

feared

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (fear)

    • Anagrams

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    afeared

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (afear)

    • Adjective

  • (dialectal) Afraid.
  • * 1886 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), "(A Study in Scarlet)"
    • 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.