[ UK /fɹˈa‍ɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹaɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
VERB
  1. cause fear in
    The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
    Ghosts could never affright her
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How To Use fright In A Sentence

  • You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
  • On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
  • Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • As the scores indicate - typically gelid to frozen - the shots seem to fall in the unflattering to outright frightening range.
  • Drake, in his _Eboracum_, says (p. 7, Appendix), "I have been so frightened with stories of the barguest when I was a child, that I cannot help throwing away an etymology upon it. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • I watch the flowery stars which frighten me; * While cark and care mine every night foreslow. Arabian nights. English
  • The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
  • They were going to the pelican crossing, but stepped off the kerb because they were frightened by a dog on the pavement.
  • Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
  • Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all.
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