spooked

Speech parts

1. spooked - Adjective

2. spooked - Verb

Meaning

A little scared; worried by a feeling or event. Describing the unsettling feeling there being another unknown ghostly presence.

Being spied upon by security or intelligence services.

(informal) Taken off guard; astonished; surprised.

(philosophy) Duped into believing a spook.

spooked

simple past and past participle of spook

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Examples

Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes. Rick Riordan

It was their way of defying that tricky place Earth. That place will hurt you if you let it get the hop on you. They spooked the Earth spooks away with their stories. They whistled in the dark. R. A. Lafferty

If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked. Ben Stein

Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. Maureen Dowd

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. Dar Williams

A spooked crow is afraid of a bush. Russian Proverb

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