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- Dictionaryfrighten/ˈfrʌɪtn/
verb
- 1. make (someone) afraid or anxious: "the savagery of his thoughts frightened him"
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frighten. verb [ T ] uk/ˈfraɪ.tən/us/ˈfraɪ.tən/ Add to word listAdd to word list. B2. to make someone feel fear: He frightens me when he drives so fast. You'll frighten the baby wearing that mask. frighten someone to deathThe noise frightened me to death (= gave me a severe fright).
The meaning of FRIGHTEN is to make afraid : terrify. How to use frighten in a sentence.
To frighten is to shock with sudden, startling, but usually short-lived fear, especially that arising from the apprehension of physical harm: to frighten someone by a sudden noise. To alarm is to arouse the feelings through the realization of some imminent or unexpected danger: to alarm someone by a scream.
To frighten is to shock with sudden, startling, but usually short-lived fear, esp. that arising from the apprehension of physical harm: to frighten someone by a sudden noise. To alarm is to arouse the feelings through the realization of some imminent or unexpected danger: to alarm someone by a scream.
To frighten is to make someone feel afraid. Your new look — pink hair, tattoos, and piercings — will probably frighten your grandparents.
1. To fill with fear; alarm. 2. To drive or force by arousing fear: The suspect was frightened into confessing. v.intr. To become afraid: told ghost stories to campers who frightened easily. fright′en·er n. fright′en·ing·ly adv. Synonyms: frighten, scare, alarm, terrify, terrorize, startle, panic.
verb. /ˈfraɪtn/ [transitive, intransitive] Verb Forms. Idioms Phrasal Verbs. to make somebody suddenly feel afraid. frighten (somebody) Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. (informal) He used to frighten me to death (= a lot), zooming about on his go-cart. She's not easily frightened.
adjective us / ˈfrɑɪ·t ə nd / She was too frightened to enter the room alone. (Definition of frighten from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of frighten. frighten. The power of the voice of women frightens them. From Huffington Post.
to make someone afraid or nervous: It frightens me when he drives so fast. See also. scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of sb. scare/frighten sb out of their wits. Fewer examples. a story that frightened many children. Death frightens many people. He doesn't frighten me.
frighten to make someone feel afraid, often suddenly: She brought out a gun and frightened them off. scare or frighten? Frighten is slightly more formal than scare .
