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a⋅feard

  [uh-feerd]
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–adjective British and Midland and Southern U.S.
afraid.
Also, a⋅feared.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME afered, OE āfǣred frightened (ptp. of āfǣran). See a- 3 , fear, -ed 2
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a·feard also a·feared   (ə-fîrd')   
adj.   Southern & Midland U.S.
Afraid.

[Middle English afered, from Old English āfǣred, past participle of āfǣran, to frighten : ā-, intensive pref. + fǣran, to frighten (from fǣr, danger; see fear).]
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afeared 
O.E. afæred, pp. of now-obsolete afear "to terrify." Used by Shakespeare, but supplanted in literary Eng. after 1700 by afraid (q.v.). It still survives in popular and colloquial speech.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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