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Frighten Common

Frighten has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

cause fear in

"The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"

"Ghosts could never affright her"

2

To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
stimulate
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
bluff awe terrify intimidate dismay consternate spook
Rhyming Words
ten sten aten osten paten goten atten hiten oaten ayten eaten outen esten eoten cuten often guten laten pecten molten
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