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Frighten meaning
To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright. | To become scared or alarmed.
Synonyms of Frighten
Example sentences (20)
Ahead of a judicial overhaul that could transform the country and frighten away investors, the executives of Start-Up Nation are mulling an exodus.
As cows (or horses) slowly trudge through fields of grass, they frighten well-hidden insects into evasive maneuvers and the cattle egrets take that opportunity to gobble them up.
Banning breeds can also increase their popularity, especially with those who seek to use dogs for wrong purposes - to harm or frighten others.
Just because it’s spooky season doesn’t mean you should frighten your party guests with rubbish Halloween food.
Like Berger, Moore accused Cooper of spreading misinformation about the bill “to frighten voters” and predicted a swift override in his chamber.
One popular claim circulating Monday suggested, with no evidence, that the U.S. deployed the airborne devices as a way to frighten and distract Americans.
Putin is using the nuclear issue to frighten us.
The film does deliver grotesque gore, but it aims less to frighten audiences and more to entertain them with a madcap adventure.
He’s routinely lashed out at woke overreach, mocked the left’s embrace of policies that frighten most voters, and stood tall for free speech when others took a knee.
In a on X (formerly Twitter) on May 26, 2024, Sunday, Medvedev implied that Sikorski was attempting to frighten his own superiors rather than relay actual US policy.
Legendary “missile gaps” were confected to frighten lawmakers.
Tehran may decide that simply having the and perhaps other vessels in the Red Sea will sufficiently frighten Western shipping lines and rattle the Prosperity Guardian coalition.
We don't want to frighten you but we do want you to be aware there could be a significant weather event affecting Louisiana between those dates.
All that, plus regular columnists, two pages of letters and lots more to frighten and entertain you — and maybe to help you navigate these scary days.
Besides a walking burned corpse, some cartel gunmen and a giant surgeon who looks like a reject from the franchise, there aren’t many things in this one to frighten viewers.
He loves to frighten people first with his drastic looks and follow it up with his sick humor.
He said: “Khan also showed us the bomb around his waist in an attempt to frighten us.
He was an IT professional before his arrest and tried to frighten his targets with details he'd found about them and their families.
Horror fans know Junji Ito as "the" Japanese horror mangaka, specializing in stories that disturb and frighten readers like few authors can.
Models seem to be used to frighten people.