Descriptions & Equivalents
- afraid to speak
- air grew thicker
- began to look behind him frequently
- blood drained from her face
- blood ran cold
- breath caught in his throat
- breathing fast
- bundle of nerves
- can't catch my breath
- changed the locks
- clenched stomach
- cold feet
- cold fear
- completely irrational fear
- cowed
- cowered in her wheelchair
- daddy's going to kill us
- death grip
- didn't take a breath for five minutes
- distraught
- entered a dark place
- fear rose in her throat
- flinched
- floating in dread
- fraidy cat
- freaked out
- gave him some berth
- got cold feet
- gulping sound
- had to breathe into a paper bag to recover
- had to look over this shoulder for fear of being mugged
- hair stood on end
- hands covering my eyes
- hands shaking
- has no spine
- heart beating in high gear
- heart hammering/knocking in her chest
- heart-pounding anxiety
- heart thudding rapidly in his neck
- his gut twisted
- hollowness in my stomach
- hyperventilated
- in a state of low-grade terror
- incalculable fear
- intellectually she knew there was no reason to be alarmed
- kept at arm's length
- knees buckled
- legs got wobbly
- let out a shaky breath
- lips quivered
- lives in chronic fear
- made me draw in a breath
- mouth was dry
- my heart hurried
- my heart stopped when it jumped out of the shadows
- not wrong to be freaked out
- once burned – twice shy
- panicked
- panic-stricken
- paralyzed horror
- paranoid
- petrified
- prayed that he would live through it
- pulse pounding
- pushed the panic button
- quivering gelatinous mass
- raised eyebrows
- ran for his life
- rattled his nerves
- scared shitless
- scared silly
- scared the bejesus out of me
- sense of doom
- shivers ran up and down her spine
- shook like a leaf
- shuddered
- skin crawling
- skin got goosebumps
- snakebitten
- spooked
- stomach flipped up into my chest
- stomach rolled
- stomach knotted up
- stopped in his tracks
- sucked the air right out of my lungs
- swallowing hard
- sweaty palms
- tensions mounted
- terror of the unexpected
- terror ripped through her
- terror snuck into his heart
- touched his tongue to his lips
- trepidation
- tummy flipped flopped
- uneasy
- wary
- woke up sweating
- yikes
Scared. To be unsure or afraid of a situation, thing or creature; which includes humans. Bryan was scared beyond belief when the customer pulled out a gun.
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
Of Mice and Men
