What is the meaning of scared?

verb

• Cause fear in.
  • usage: "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
  • synonyms: frighten, fright, scare, affright
• Cause to lose courage.
  • usage: "dashed by the refusal"
  • synonyms: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare

adjective

• Made afraid.
  • usage: "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
  • synonyms: frightened