frighten
[ˈfraɪtn]
Definition:
1. Cause fear in.
2. To make someone suddenly feel afraid.
3. Drive out by frightening.
'frighten' example sentence:
- He knew that Soli was trying to frighten him, so he smiled to hide his fear.
- Frighten She was frightened to look down from the top of the tall building.
- Don't let fitness frighten you!
- It's frightening to think it could happen again.
- Similarly, the need to learn a new language and customs may excite one person and frighten another.
- I didn't want to frighten the child.
- Frighten me to jump!
- He would never frighten anyone or cause them any harm.
- Dare not boast of good, frighten posterity never boast become don't talk.
- Most children are frightened by the sight of blood.
- He keeps them secret so that other boys won't find their holes and frighten them.
- Growing numbers of people in the rural areas are too frightened to vote.
- He's not frightened of getting his hands dirty.
- I could point at all those layoff statistics. Or I could frighten you by bringing up the specter of your job going overseas.
- I wasn't frightened by what he said ─ it was all bluster.
- There's something about this place that frightens me.
- "I frighten them to death," she says.
- The young prince said, "all this shall not frighten me. I will go and see this Briar Rose."
- Cockroaches are the insects that frighten me most.
- New behaviors can frighten the people observing them, so introduce them slowly.
- You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?
- His oddness frightened her.
- All this was just designed to frighten me and keep me in line.
- This can frighten criminals away if they realize there's a number stamped on it.
- Survivors waited for the rescue boats, dazed and frightened.
- She knew what to ask and how to ask it in a way that didn't frighten me.
- She doesn't frighten easily.
- And they often used a spear to frighten sparrows.
- An aggressive bear will usually rush forward to frighten away its enemy but would suddenly stop at the last minute.
- What are you frightened of?
- Yet aftershocks frighten residents and complicate rescue efforts.
- Don't try to frighten us with your technological worries.
- The whole car shuddered with an almost frightening surge of power.
- I want to frighten him.
- He sounded frightened.
- It is meant to frighten off evil spirits.
- Fairground rides are intended to frighten the life out of you.
- And I defy you to hurt him when I am by, and I defy you to frighten me!
- Don't be frightened.
- Dummy patrol cars will be set up beside motorways to frighten speeding motorists.
- She was frightened that the glass would break.
- Though badly frightened, she remained outwardly composed.
- He brought out a gun and frightened them off.
- She's not easily frightened.
- I was frightened by the noise.
- I'm frightened of walking home alone in the dark.
- The fishermen said the company's seismic survey was frightening away fish.
- She spoke quietly to still the frightened child.
- Everyone was frightened by the strange sequence of events.
- She was frightened that the plane would crash.
- I agreed, but only because I was frightened.
- Underneath her cool exterior she was really very frightened.
- She crouched in the dark, too frightened to reveal herself.
- I'm too frightened to ask him now.
- Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you.