To frighten is to make someone feel afraid. Your new look pink hair, tattoos, and piercings will probably frighten your grandparents.
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Verb
cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
Verb
drive out by frightening
v. t.
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm
or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Frighten
More frightened than hurt.
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Usage Examples
Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
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Other Usage ExamplesPart of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
I love being on stage. I'm completely, totally relaxed. It's the only time in my life when I know where I am and what's coming next. The other Robert Powell is probably fairly melancholic. Let's just say happiness isn't my default position. There are dark parts. I'm very good at it. I frighten people sometimes.
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
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