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frighten::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | affright, fright, scare |
| Type of | shake up, excite, shake, stir, stimulate |
| Has types | horrify, intimidate, spook, terrify, terrorise, alarm, terrorize, appal, appall, awe, bluff, consternate, dismay |
| Derivation | frightening |
The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me.
Examples of frighten
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Rumors of change may frighten you, but these shifts won't really amount to much.
From the fresnobee.com
Maese claimed he was not trying to frighten her or dissuade her from testifying.
From the sltrib.com
Instead you must try to frighten people with what their chldren might be taught.
From the evangelicaloutpost.com
If you need to try and frighten yourself about the future try a self-help group.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is classic bully behavior to frighten victims into allegiance with the bully.
From the washingtonpost.com
With backgrounds like those, the directors are not about to frighten the horses.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It so dominates the stage that it may frighten preschoolers, at least at first.
From the post-gazette.com
Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
Two display cases hold much memorabilia that will either fascinate or frighten.
From the post-gazette.com
- Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
- Drive out by frightening
- (frightened) made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
- (frightened) panicky: thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted"
- (frightening) awful: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; ...
- (frightening) terrorization: the act of inspiring with fear
- (The Frightened) The Frightened was a radio program broadcast in the late 1950s. During 1956 Lyle Kenyon Engel put together a package of two radio shows and four magazines. ...
- (The Frightening) The Frightening is a homoerotic horror movie, released in 2002, directed by David DeCoteau.
- To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify
