Pronunciations (7)
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/fɪəd/
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- Received-Pronunciation
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/fɪːd/
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- British
- Southern
- Standard
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/fɪjəd/
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- British
- Southern
- Standard
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/fɪɹd/
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- General-American
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/fiəd/
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- New-Zealand
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/fiɾd/
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- Scotland
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[fiːɾd]
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- Scotland
Adjective
Pertaining to someone or thing that causes great fear in others.
Regarded with fear, respect, or reverence.
Frightened, afraid.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
- Examples
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Conſcience grows feared: the heart grows hardened: while you delay, the Devil rules and rejoyceth: […]
[…] I’m maist feared to speak to him—and it’s an unco thing to hear ane o’ us speak that gate o’ a man—[…]
More examples (1)
That which hindered was thyself / More feared of [Julius] Cæsar, than of wrongfulness; […]