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单词 frighten
释义
frighten
verb[T]
uk
/ˈfraɪ.tən/us
/ˈfraɪ.tən/
B2
to make someonefeelfear:
使害怕，使受惊
He frightens me when hedrivessofast.他开车这么快，我很害怕。
You'll frighten thebabywearingthatmask.你戴那个面具会吓着宝宝的。
Thenoisefrightened metodeath/out ofmywits(= gave me aseverefright).那声音吓得我要死／不知所措。
More examples
  • Theyfiredoff severalshotsto frighten us.
  • The fast-movingtrafficfrightened thehorse.
  • I was frightened by theangerin hisvoice.
  • He frightenspeoplebycreepingup on them.
  • Don'tlether frighten you, herbarkisworsethan herbite.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Frightening and scaring
  • chillsomeoneto the bone/marrowidiom
  • cow
  • creep
  • curdle
  • daylight
  • dreadful
  • flesh
  • ghoulish
  • jump scare
  • makesomeone'sblood curdleidiom
  • makesomeone'sblood run coldidiom
  • makesomeone'shair stand on endidiom
  • makeyourflesh crawl/creepidiom
  • scare
  • scaresomeoneshitlessidiom
  • scaremongering
  • send
  • send chills down/upsomeone'sspineidiom
  • send shivers down/upsomeone'sspineidiom
  • shiver
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Phrasal verbs

frightensomeone/somethingaway/off
frightensomeoneintosomething
(Definition offrightenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

frighten| American Dictionary

frighten
verb[T]
us
/ˈfrɑɪ·tən/
to make someonefeelfear:
Bequietor you’ll frighten thedeer.

frightened

adjectiveus
/ˈfrɑɪ·tənd/
She was too frightened toentertheroomalone.
(Definition offrightenfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffrighten

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