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Frightened

[frahyt-nd]

Example Sentences Origin

adjective

thrown into a fright; afraid; scared; terrified: a frightened child cowering in the corner.

afraid; fearful (usually followed by of): He has always been frightened of heights.

Origin:
1715–25; frighten + -ed²

Related forms

fright·ened·ly, adverb

un·fright·ened, adjective

well-fright·ened, adjective

Synonyms
2. See afraid.

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Frightened is always a great word to know.

So is callithumpian. Does it mean:

an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Example Sentences

Very young children might be frightened by scenes of animals attacking people.

Some looked sad, others frightened about what is in front of them, and others were beaming with happiness.

Most of the dangers that frightened financial markets during the year have failed to materialise.

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Very young children might be frightened by scenes of animals attacking people.

Some looked sad, others frightened about what is in front of them, and others were beaming with happiness.

Most of the dangers that frightened financial markets during the year have failed to materialise.

It's our natural inclination to try and make a frightened dog feel safe.

Our species seems hard wired to be frightened by snakes and spiders.

At first the dog seemed frightened of the city's noise, and he thought he'd made a mistake in accepting her.

If kids are easily frightened by scary images of any kind, they should not see this movie.

Admitting when you're frightened and ignorant can be the first step in overcoming fear and ignorance.

It is concerned about social cohesion and frightened by its home-grown bombers.

Six young costumed kids screamed, a brief flash of frightened uncertainty in their eyes.

However, the same people who are so frightened of nuclear power are preventing irradiation of food.

So frightened his knees were shaking, he ran farther along the lake.

We froze the dividend, and it frightened the life out of our shareholders.

When you're frightened everybody tells you things that make perfect sense.

The unions have also encouraged a rash of new labour laws in the past four years that have frightened off investors.

But firefighters are encountering a few frightened animals as they battle the blaze.

Additionally, science is neither frightened nor diminished by admitting that there are things it doesn't know.

Koteas and her colleagues have reason to be frightened.

No one screamed, he said, but a few professors were frightened.

One frightened businessman trapped inside the police lines pleaded to be arrested so that he could escape the mayhem.

The lizard moved in frightened rhythms across the sun-blasted stone.

The frightened mouse contributed his own tiny measure of mercaptans to the mix.

I've often been so frightened to seriously contemplate the break, that this tactic was a way to ease into making a decision.

Investors have been frightened off by the political debate.

But don't be frightened by the woolit is machine washable and won't itch.

Maybe if you were not irrationally frightened you could make an intelligent arguement.

Watching how my retired colleagues were treated frightened me.

She kept bombarding the brown waters until she was satisfied that the crocodile lurking below had been frightened off.

Many companies are still restricting travel for their employees, and some people are too frightened to fly.

The biker was badly hurt, in a lot of pain, and frightened.

The union is involved and the admin is frightened of lawsuits and the bad press.

If people are too frightened of the law to shoot pirates, there would seem to be something seriously wrong with the law.

King has begun placing recorders directly in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.

As the frightened villagers light their torches and chase down the maaaad scientists yet again.

People are frightened about their economic future, and their children's.

But eventually the animals became used to the noises and were no longer frightened.

He looks frightened and ready to scratch out if you get too close.

Many people are frightened when they see a rattler and call for help right away.

When frightened by a predator's approach the lizard will drop to the water and run across the surface.

He wanders through the darkness, alone and frightened.

The little sister, however, was dreadfully frightened when she saw that her fawn was hurt.

They are hunkered down in their houses, frightened but used to it in a way.

The rest were frightened of the ghosts said to roam such sacred places.

They are frightened and ready to defend their turf and the youngsters are all pumped up and eager to chase the elephants.

Thus they were not unduly frightened by my presence, and observations were extremely profitable.

As the frightened women comply, they bare the whites of their eyes and begin shaking.

I've been frightened by the sound of my own inner ears.

Yet perhaps never in the history of human conflict have so few people with so few capabilities frightened so many.

The frightened animals continued to display the wide range of anxiety levels they started with.

Andersen learned of these tactics and was even more frightened and distressed”.

Paul, all apparently healthy young men, might literally have been frightened to death.

You've frightened away not only the tourists, but also the shopkeepers and even the doughty burghers.

He declared that it was an accident, and that he misinformed his parents and the authorities because he was frightened.

Other people have noticed that their animals are dissappearing and are frightened in the neighborhood.

To calm his frightened wife, he never spoke of the harrowing fires.

We are puzzled that they are so frightened by historical debate.

And it leaves him all alone in the clammy stillness of a frightened cow-town to shoot it out with the unrelenting toughs.

Really too bad everyone's so frightened that they won't name the actual universities and professors in question.

But the victims of both kinds of stalker may be as frightened as those threatened physically.

Never being exposed to any other people or cultures other than his own village, this frightened him greatly.

In her research, subjects are shown a photograph of another person's face with a frightened look.

It was more of a child who was frightened out of her mind.

Most people were frightened off without being threatened, she said.

They were thrilled and rather frightened at the prospect of me going on up the educational and social scale.

It's amazing that we've become so frightened that we're willing to grasp at straws that haven't been shown to be effective.

The uproar that followed the original discovery has frightened others off.

By now the man looked a lot less threatening and a great deal more frightened.

Arar several times, but the prisoner was too frightened to tell him about the.

People seem to be both fascinated and frightened by the idea that scientists might create intelligence in other apes.

Opposition and human-rights people could be frightened into acquiescence.

He was either genuinely frightened or seizing the opportunity to advance a romantic agenda".

You'd have to anyway, but you'll have a frightened and possibly traumatized child to calm and build a relationship with.

Hollywood and music studios are also increasingly frightened.

Throughout history, the prospect of greater access to knowledge has frightened some people.

Polar bears are smart resilient and more interested than frightened by oil exploration activities.

Though the state retains its monopoly of force, people at the bottom are now less frightened.

They are frightened of giving away their space secrets to rivals.

My wife is now frightened of the dog, and is not comfortable around her.

If you feed him nervous, frightened energy he will respond in kind.

They tend to be quite frightened by the idea of ego-loss because they think that the less ego one has, the less control one has.

Additionally, she is terribly frightened of thunder and fireworks.

Some of it has come from frightened people who buy into his nonsense.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.

to drive (usually followed by away, off, etc.) by scaring: to frighten away pigeons from the roof.

verb (used without object)

to become frightened: a timid child who frightens easily.

Origin:
1660–70; fright + -en¹

Related forms

fright·en·a·ble, adjective

fright·en·er, noun

fright·en·ing·ly, adverb

non·fright·en·ing, adjective

non·fright·en·ing·ly, adverb

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o·ver·fright·en, verb

un·fright·en·ing, adjective

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Synonyms
1. shock, startle, dismay, intimidate. Frighten, alarm, scare, terrify, terrorize, appall all mean to arouse fear in people or animals. 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 scare is to frighten, often without the presence of real danger: Horror movies really scare me. To terrify is to strike with violent, overwhelming, or paralyzing fear: to terrify a city by lawless acts. To terrorize is to terrify in a general, continued, systematic manner, either wantonly or in order to gain control: His marauding armies terrorized the countryside. To appall is to overcome or confound by dread, dismay, shock, or horror: The suffering caused by the earthquake appalled him.

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World English Dictionary

frighten (ˈfraɪt^ən)

—vb
1.	to cause fear in; terrify; scare
2.	to drive or force to go (away, off, out, in, etc) by making afraid

'frightened

—*adj*

'frightening

—*adj*

'frighteningly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

frighten

1660s, from fright + -en (1). Related: Frightened; frightening.

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