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Fright   /fraɪt/   Listen
noun
Fright  n.  
1.
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
2.
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Alarm; terror; consternation. See Alarm.


verb
Fright  v. t.  (past frighted; pres. part. frighting)  To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare. "Nor exile or danger can fright a brave spirit."
Synonyms: To affright; dismay; daunt; intimidate.





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"Fright" Quotes from Famous Books



... and broad my poodle grows! He rises from the ground; That is no longer the form of a hound! Heaven avert the curse from us! He looks like a hippopotamus, With his fiery eyes and the terrible white Of his grinning teeth! oh what a fright Have I brought with me into the house! Ah now, No mystery art thou! Methinks for such half hellish brood The key of ...
— Faust • Goethe
... creatures. Here was I, after the labour and anxiety of the last twenty-four hours, ready to shout for joy. I was no longer tired: I felt as if my day's work had never been. I wanted to sing—to dance—to give three cheers in a whisper. And my wife, after giving me a very bad fright, was sitting celebrating our victory by a flood of tears and other phenomena usually attributed by the masculine mind to unfathomable woe. It was all very perplexing, and I felt a trifle ill-used; but I suppose it was ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... can command his own will, Valiant and constant to himself still, Whom poverty nor death, nor bands can fright, Checks his desires, ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... and took Cherry's cold little hand in her own warm one. The waxen eyelids fluttered open, and a dart of something between fright and pain went ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... while he lived, no one supposed that his only child would be poor. Her youth passed gaily, and her adversity came suddenly. Her father was wont to drive her out in his gig, almost every summer day. One evening, the horse took fright, and upset the gig on a heap of stones by the road-side. Mr Young was taken up dead, and Maria was lamed for life. She had always known the Enderbys very well; and there had been some gossip among their mutual acquaintance, ...
— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau


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