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Running scared

Main Entry:
apprehensive [ap-ri-hen-siv]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: anxious, fearful
Synonyms: afraid, alarmed, biting nails, butterflies, concerned, disquieted, doubtful, feel in bones, foreboding, frozen*, get vibes, have a hunch, have cold feet, have funny feeling, have stage fright, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a dither, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mistrustful, running scared, scaredy-cat, shaky*, stiff, suspicious, troubled, uncertain, uneasy, uptight, weak, worried, worried sick
Antonyms: at ease, calm, quiet, unafraid, undoubting, unfearful, unsuspicious, unworried
Main Entry: fearful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alarmed, apprehensive
Synonyms: aflutter, afraid, aghast, agitated, anxious, chicken, chickenhearted, diffident, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, fainthearted, frightened, goose-bumpy, have cold feet, hesitant, in a dither, intimidated, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mousy, nerveless, nervous, nervy, panicky, perturbed, phobic, pusillanimous, quivery, rabbity, running scared, scared, shaky, sheepish*, shrinking, shy, skittish, solicitous, spineless, tense, timid, timorous, tremulous, uneasy, unmanly, weak-kneed, worried, yellow*
Notes: someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome
Antonyms: bold, brave, courageous, inapprehensive, unafraid, unfearful
Main Entry: frightened
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very scared
Synonyms: abashed, affrighted, afraid, aghast, alarmed, anxious, butterflies, chicken*, chicken-hearted, cowed, dismayed, fearful, frozen, have cold feet, having kittens, hung up, in a cold sweat, in a panic, in a sweat, jellyfish, jittery, jumpy, lily-livered, mousy, numb, panicky, petrified, pushing the panic button, rabbity, running scared, scared stiff, shaky, shivery, sissy, spooked, startled, terrified, terror-stricken, terrorized, unnerved, uptight, yellow*
Antonyms: calm, comforted, happy
Main Entry: panic
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: become, make afraid or distressed
Synonyms: alarm, be terror-stricken, become hysterical, chicken out, clutch, come apart, freeze up, go to pieces, have a fit, lose it, lose nerve, overreact, push panic button, run scared, scare, shake in boots, stampede, startle, terrify, unnerve
Antonyms: be calm, be content
Main Entry: turn tail
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: turn and run away
Synonyms: desert under fire, make a U-turn, retreat, run scared, skedaddle, turn around, turn on a dime
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