fright
IPA: frˈaɪt
noun
- A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
- Someone strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
verb
- (archaic, transitive) To frighten.
adjective
- (rare) frightened; afraid; affright
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Examples of "fright" in Sentences
- "Not what I call a fright," he asserted in an even tone.
- "I cannot advise what you call a fright, and what might be a terrible thing."
- -- "But consider the fright your honor put us into," replied Pat, -- "_consider the fright_!"
- Balm for the souls of those scarred for life by childhood encounters with balloon-twisting bogeymen in fright wigs.
- But basically it looks to me like we had little boys writing foul graffitti on the wall and running away in fright when someone objected.
- One of the revelations in Threepenny Memoir was how crippling Barât's stage fright is – a surprise when the Libertines are routinely voted as one of the best live bands.
- McWhorter speculates on a possible connection between certain Germanic and Semitic roots, such as the English word fright compared with the Semitic root p-r-kh meaning "to fear."
- If the NDP had begun to rise for the Aye vote, he and his caucus would have passed out in fright and shock on the spot -- and the Tories, with the distinct possibility of a majority in their sights, would have burst into song.
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