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词汇 frighteners
释义 frighteners
noun[ plural ]
UKold-fashioneduk /ˈfraɪ.tən.əz/ us /ˈfraɪ.tən.ɚz/
 put the frighteners on someone
to threaten someone: 威胁(某人)
He said he wouldn't pay up so I sent my brother round to put the frighteners on him.他说他不还钱,所以我让我弟弟去逼他还。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangers and threats
balefully
baneful
banefully
black spot
hang over something
hazard
hazardous
hazardously
hazmat
on/under pain of deathidiom
or elseidiom
parlous
parlously
peril
someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom
tombstoning
treacherously
triple threat
ultra-hazardous
venturesome

Examples of frighteners


frighteners
Each year, the frighteners are put on them.
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All these are designed as "frighteners" to members, and of course it does not have to be so.
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She does not like it, is prejudiced against it and wants to put the frighteners on it by legislation.
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They brought in the frighteners, the heavy mob.
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How is that for frighteners to start with?
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The bailiffs' first visit will be to put the frighteners on people.
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His sole technique is to put the frighteners on people when they are in a vulnerable position, using the legal process.
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He is trying to put the frighteners on people.
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We are all told by the "frighteners" that they may be removed in the winter.
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Well, that would put the frighteners on anyone.
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It is not me who has put the frighteners on concerning waste incinerators.
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I am not sure whether he is one of the frightened or one of the frighteners, but whichever it is, he acknowledges that the intention to frighten is there.
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