frighten
IPA: frˈaɪtʌn
verb
- (transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
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Examples of "frighten" in Sentences
- Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns.
- Labour and Plaid know that any approach from the Lib Dems is only about trying to 'frighten' Plaid back into the 'rainbow'.
- I'll settle for just saying no because kids kind of frighten me with their unpredictability and uncanny ability to spread disease.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Conservative leader, campaigning in Glenrothes ahead of next month's by-election, also attacked Labour for trying to "frighten" Scots away from independence.
- 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.
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