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Afraid

Afraid meaning

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear. | Regretful, sorry; expressing a reluctance to face an unpleasant situation. | Worried about, feeling concern for, fearing for (someone or something).

Example sentences (20)

Don't be afraid to get in there and have a go, don't be afraid of boys judging you, don't be afraid of those older men in the community judging you," she said.

He’s not afraid of the moment, he’s not afraid to compete, not afraid to go out there and make plays no matter who is out on the floor with him.

I am afraid to go out because pictures of my car appeared on social media and there were videos circulating of us… We are afraid of being attacked again.

It is why my best friend was afraid to tell me her stance on abortion or my closest childhood friend was afraid I would judge her when she came out as bisexual.

Nobody questions his toughness and says he knows he’s afraid, and Cody stands up saying that he doesn’t have anything left to be afraid of.

She said, "Don't be afraid of hard work, not to be afraid of filling your day.

This job I feel like you had to detox from, because after you quit you’re so afraid to say anything because you’re afraid AppHarvest will sue you,” said Nora.

And since that first poisoning, I’ve been sleeping with my phone, afraid to miss an important call and afraid to get that call.

And THE most successful people / businesses come from those who aren't afraid to try new things; those who aren't afraid to fail.

But in a place of sensitive awareness, if she was feeling incompetent or I was feeling incompetent — because that’s what it ultimately comes from, your fear — whenever we were afraid, we couldn’t be afraid together.

If we are afraid to ask it, or if they are afraid to do it, hasn’t Transport Malta just wasted 20 years on a big fib?

Mr Jeffries said a key outcome was to 'make sure that what we got in the room was people to not to be too afraid to have the conversation that they're too afraid to have'.

What the pastor was describing was literally I had been procrastinating: being afraid of making mistakes in writing these essays; being afraid of offending people, both Christian and Jewish; maybe others too; losing credibility and (human) support.

And every government, of every political stripe, has been afraid to talk about it because they’re afraid of political backlash,” Tedjo claimed in a recent interview with iPolitics, discussing his bid for leader.

Be afraid – be very afraid.

But “if you’re nervous about it, I don’t say to don’t be afraid of it, I think that you’ve got a reason to be afraid of it.

But, UC Davis students from China have one hope with the Coronavirus situation: “I hope that there’s no student afraid of the people who wear masks or afraid of the students from China,” Ni said.

He said that many in the back are afraid of him, but that afraid isn’t in his vocabulary.

He tweeted, "If is thinking that we are going to sit silently afraid of this violence, then it is a misunderstanding, our history is not afraid or we do violence, we only fight the truth of non-violence.

I won a mandate not hiding my track record… I’m not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of view.