adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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I was so afraid you'd changed.
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So many producers are so afraid to take on a new project like that.
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Very often people get so afraid of these consequences that they develop a very serious fear of their own fear response.
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I remember my father standing over her sickbed, wringing his hands, so afraid of losing another child.
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Oh, Jacques, now that I have told you everything, I am so afraid .
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She had been so afraid of his condition when it came down to a matter of intimacy.
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People are so afraid of dying that they've now decided that only those with Aids will die.
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Al Hamilton was so afraid to make his first presentations that he literally shook before they began.
too
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The waiters are too afraid to rush forward.
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I had always been too afraid of what other people would think.
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Three, she found the body and covered it up, but was too afraid to admit what she had done.
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Behind those hard faces and vacant eyes are injured people who have been too afraid and too desperate too long.
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The racking sobs didn't last long; she was too afraid that fitzAlan would recover and come after her.
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But now he was too afraid to stay with them.
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Too many parents have been too afraid ever to acknowledge the real state of our affairs to their children.
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Most women are basically too afraid to leave.
very
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But my uncle was very afraid .
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He was very afraid of certain boys.
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We were very afraid , and we began to run back to our dressing-room.
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I get very afraid and I feel the presence of evil around me, like something is trying to hurt me.
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Raoul was very afraid for her.
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She looked very small and very afraid .
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I didn't know, but I was very afraid .
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Sarah was white-faced and very afraid .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
afraid/frightened/scared etc of your own shadow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Billy was afraid his aunt would punish him if he owned up.
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Don't be afraid . I won't hurt you.
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He had a terrible temper and everyone was afraid of him.
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I could see she was afraid .
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I didn't tell anyone, because I was afraid of being punished.
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It's amazing how many people are afraid of spiders.
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She was afraid to speak up in front of all these important people.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For centuries, no one had come along who could make him afraid .
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He was not afraid to throw less-touted Charlie Garner into the running-back mix.
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I am afraid I don't know his second name, but I have been his friend since he was a boy.
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I am afraid there will be a good deal of suffering among the poor this winter.
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I have learned not to be afraid of fire.
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I was afraid to turn around and look at all the others being kept out.
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Now that he could do nothing, he felt afraid .
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We were afraid that this proud and energetic man might be forced to lie there paralyzed and helpless until his death.