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terrified

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t???fa?d/
  • Hyphenation: ter?ri?fied

Adjective

terrified (comparative more terrified, superlative most terrified)

  1. Extremely frightened.

Translations

Verb

terrified

  1. simple past tense and past participle of terrify

terrified From the web:

  • what terrified clover and the other animals
  • what terrified the union troops at the battle
  • what terrified the group in the secret annex
  • what terrified the creature
  • what terrified newcomers in the lowell mills
  • what terrified the pirate who killed him and how
  • what terrified the seagull
  • what terrified the young seagull from flight

tremulous

English

Etymology

From Latin tremulus, from trem? (“I shake”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ????? (trém?).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?t??mjul?s/

Adjective

tremulous (comparative more tremulous, superlative most tremulous)

  1. Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
  2. Timid, hesitant; lacking confidence.
    • 2009 Oct. 7, Christopher Kimball, "Opinion: Gourmet to All That," New York Times (retrieved 18 Aug 2012):
      This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.

Synonyms

  • (trembling, quivering, or shaking): quaking, shaking, trembling, tremulant
  • (timid, hesitant, or unconfident): timid, wavering

Related terms

  • tremble
  • tremor

Translations

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