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afeared
O.E.
afæred
, pp. of now-obsolete
afear
(O.E.
afæran
) "to terrify," from
a-
(1) + root of
fear
. Used by Shakespeare, but supplanted in literary Eng. after 1700 by
afraid
(q.v.). It still survives in popular and colloquial speech.
