Afraid and Waiting

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Afraid adjective - Filled with fear or dread.

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Waiting and afraid are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Waiting" instead an adjective "Afraid".

Waiting adjective - Being and remaining ready and available for use.

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Afraid and waiting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Afraid" instead an adjective "Waiting".

Nearby Words: wait, waited, waiter

In one episode of Arrested Development, Michael calls his father on the phone in the hotel room where he's waiting for his fiancee, to prove to him that he's not afraid of intimacy.

Source: Shockingly Expensive Bill
The only reason Chuck Norris is afraid of death is because he knows Bruce Lee will be waiting for him.

Source: The Dreaded
Irma Fayette, morbidly afraid of being raped, finds a .45 pistol and some "green and mossy-looking" bullets in the attic of her home and camps out on her front porch, waiting.

Source: Cruel And Unusual Death / Literature

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