Frighten

Verb

 * 1) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:frighten

Adverbs for Frighten
genuinely; horribly; supernaturally; violently; morbidly; collectively; intolerably; overwhelmingly; instinctively; devilishly; nefariously; insidiously.

Thesaurus
affright, agitate, alarm, alert, appall, arouse, astound, awe, bowl down, bowl over, browbeat, bulldoze, cow, cry havoc, cry wolf, curdle the blood, daunt, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, dismay, disquiet, distress, electrify, faze, fly storm warnings, fright, funk, horrify, horripilate, intimidate, jar, jolt, make one tremble, panic, perturb, petrify, raise apprehensions, scare, scare stiff, shake, shock, sound the alarm, sound the tocsin, spook, stagger, startle, stun, take aback, terrify, terrorize, unman, unnerve, unstring, upset, warn

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Arabic: خشّى
 * Catalan: espantar, espaventar
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: effrayer, redouter
 * German: Angst machen
 * Greek: ,
 * Latin:


 * Nahuatl: tetzauhqui
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: భయపడు