frighten
verb/ˈfɹaɪ.tən/
Etymology
From Middle English *frightenen, equivalent to fright + -en.
- inherited from *frightenen✻
Definitions
To cause to feel fear
To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
- Avery puts a sheet over her head, pretending to be a ghost to frighten Emily.
- His Deſign was only to frighten France, and get more Money.
- You may frighten a pig, a goose, a frog, and even a fly, but you cannot frighten or surprise a sloth.
To become scared or alarmed.
- In fitting the White Leghorns for exhibition, it must be remembered that they are of nervous disposition and frighten easily.
- Those male moose at the southeast arm didn't frighten very much when we docked to fly-fish one day. One was so scared of us he just walked toward us and snorted.
- Be sneaky. Fish frighten easily.
The neighborhood
- synonymalarm
- synonymaffright
- synonymappall
- synonymdismay
- synonymfray
- synonymfrighten
- synonymgrill
- synonymgive someone the shits
- synonymharrow
- synonymhorrify
- synonymmake someone's blood run cold
- synonymmortify
- neighborfright
- neighborafraid
- neighborcoward
- neighbordisheartening
- neighborfear
- neighbornervous
- neighborasustar
- neighboraffect
- neighborinflict
- neighborupset
- neighbordaunt
- neighborintimidate
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at frighten. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at frighten. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at frighten
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA