Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fill with fear; alarm.
- intransitive verb To drive or force by arousing fear.
- intransitive verb To become afraid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike with fright; terrify; scare; dismay.
- Synonyms To affright, dismay, daunt, appal, intimidate. See
afraid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To disturb with
fear ; to throw into a state ofalarm orfright ; toaffright ; toterrify .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause fear in
- verb drive out by frightening
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Examples
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Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns.
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Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns.
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Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns.
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Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns.
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The Conservative leader, campaigning in Glenrothes ahead of next month's by-election, also attacked Labour for trying to "frighten" Scots away from independence.
(Mis)Interpreting Cameron O'Neill 2008
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You make the mistake of thinking, in your pisspoor posts, that we don; t know jack abotu US or world politics, and that we buy into a paranoid world view where we choose leaders because they 'frighten' other leaders.
The McCain factor 2008
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I'll settle for just saying no because kids kind of frighten me with their unpredictability and uncanny ability to spread disease.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2008
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Scarnecchia says they thought the grandmothers might "frighten" Jessica, or perhaps try to run off with her-as the Schmidts suspected the DeBoers might do.
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Labour and Plaid know that any approach from the Lib Dems is only about trying to 'frighten' Plaid back into the 'rainbow'.
Decision Time Glyn Davies 2007
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I see after a little as it was n't no use talkin 'to Elijah so I just had to listen to him an' he really did kind of frighten me in the end.
Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891
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