asustado

adj. frightened; startled

v. frighten, scare, alarm; startle

v. panic; shy; start

= alarmed, frightened, afraid.
Ex: Melanie Stanton looked both shocked and alarmed.
Ex: Astounded and frightened by those shimmering tears, Leforte repeated her questions: 'Bernice... Please... Is anything wrong? Can I help?'.
Ex: The mother, a little afraid and expecting the worst, was unsettled, despite all her efforts to be open-minded, by her preconceptions not only about the drug but about the rights and wrongs of the position she had put herself into.

= alarm, frighten, scare, startle, make + things + scary for, freak, shock.
Ex: Don't be alarmed if the record does not save.
Ex: What frightens me about OCLC is the fact that I am disturbed by the integrity of their kind of cataloging.
Ex: 'Punch' satirised the opponents more cruelly: 'Here is an institution doomed to scare the furious devotees of laissez faire'.
Ex: I was a little startled in some ways by a statement that other decisions have been directed towards achieving a consistent form of heading.
Ex: The article has the title 'Things that go bump in the night: net newbies are maturing -- and making things scary for the traditionals'.
Ex: When I had a similar problem I freaked and instead of going to my manual I called tech support.
Ex: The gush of water could serve many purposes and was prescribed to soothe, to refrigerate, to stop a swelling, to widen pores, to shock the patient.
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* asustarse = panic.
* asustarse de = be scared of.