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Frightened

adjective

Made afraid. Synonym: scared. "Too shocked and scared to move"

Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation. Synonyms: panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified. "Felt panicked before each exam" , "Trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd" , "The terrified horse bolted"

Frighten

verb

(past frightened; pres. part. frightening)

Cause fear in. Synonyms: affright, fright, scare. "Ghosts could never affright her"

Drive out by frightening.

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"Frightened" Quotes from Famous Books

... to do. But suddenly Mr. Poritol seemed to be frightened. Perhaps he thought that I would have him arrested, though he might have known that there were reasons why I couldn't. He gave me a panicky look and rushed out of the corridor. Afterward I learned that he told the guard I had ...

— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin

... ashore for their first night, they discharge their fire-arms at sounds they take to be enemy locals. The noises turn out to be Pete and Cross, the ship's carpenter, who had jumped ship. Pete had been a dirty-looking frightened boy on the ship, but with a quick wash of the face he turns out to be quite a useful lad, and plays a full part in ...

— Through Forest and Stream - The Quest of the Quetzal • George Manville Fenn

... the kind," cried Jusy, his face very red. "She was talking to her cousin; and she thought we were asleep; and Rea and I listened; and I told Rea it was good enough for us to get so frightened because we had listened. But I did not believe it so ...

— The Hunter Cats of Connorloa • Helen Jackson

... calmer, and began to gather around her head, asking cautious questions. The caterpillars did not seem to understand, and looked as frightened and agitated as ever; for Sara was unconsciously speaking the butterfly language, and the caterpillars ...

— The Garden of the Plynck • Karle Wilson Baker

... deliberate upon the measures to be adopted. Having reached the door, however, of the burgomaster's dwelling, the professor ventured to suggest that as the messenger had thought proper to disappear—no doubt frightened to death by the savage appearance of the burghers of Rotterdam—the pardon would be of little use, as no one but a man of the moon would undertake a voyage to so vast a distance. To the truth of this observation the burgomaster assented, and the matter was therefore at an end. Not so, however, ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

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