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frighten | American Dictionary

frighten
verb[ T ]
us/ˈfrɑɪ·tən/
to make someone feel fear:
Be quiet or you’ll frighten the deer.

frightened

adjectiveus/ˈfrɑɪ·tənd/
She was too frightened to enter the room alone.

Examples of frighten

frighten
For instance, when a child is scared, the parent tells the child not to be frightened.
The intention was plainly to frighten the ruler into making his request at once.
Another behavioral precursor of disorganized attachment might be frightening parental behavior in the absence of maltreatment.
Thus, frightening and physically painful ordeals, such as those endured in rites of passage, will impact memory and belief.
By the evidence of her own material, women are frightening enough; our powers need not be explained away as masks for hidden hormones.
The total experience is not alienating or frightening, as it may be in a hall of mirrors.
There is no literal attempt to illustrate the frightening exponential curve of our own blind technological revolution, for example.
One is frightened to criticize for fear of being labeled as a member of this or that group.
But, after 1933 the popular sectors were less frightened, they had new memories and traditions of struggle, and they possessed new forms of political practice.
The sudden and unexpected display of parental fright is supposed to be frightening for the infant who is unaware of its cause.
Mental illness is not well understood: it frightens people and all too often it carries a stigma.
One may be frightened by an animal while walking alone through the forest, away from one's home.
Many were upset and frightened that the council was planning to imprison them if they didn't fill in the accompanying form.
The second conclusion would be that the infant herself is threatening and that the parent is frightened of the infant.
To them, the past was a source of both refuge and respite from a frightening unknown and of self-reassurance and self-empowerment.
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