frighten
frighten
verb (frightens, frightened, frightened, frightening)
/ˈfraɪtn/
transitive, intransitive
​to make somebody suddenly feel afraid
frighten (somebody) Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you.
(informal) He used to frighten me to death (= a lot), zooming about on his go-cart.
She's not easily frightened.
She doesn't frighten easily (= it is not easy to make her afraid).
it frightens somebody to think, see, hear, etc… It really frightens me to think how this might have ended.
it frightens somebody that… It frightened him that she could see so easily into his private thoughts.
Synonyms frighten
Collocations
adverb
really
almost
easily
verb + frighten
want to
not mean to
try to…
phrases
frighten somebody to death
frighten the life out of somebody
Idioms
frighten/scare the (living) daylights out of somebody
frighten/scare the life out of somebody
frighten/scare somebody to death
Phrasal Verbs
frighten away
frighten away from
frighten into
frighten into doing
frighten off