The sudden noise outside frightened me. My heart started to beat a little faster as I crept towards the window...
"This movie will frighten you."
Please do not frighten the cat.
You gave me a fright then! (something like that?)
the root word for frighten is fry
The word daunt is a verb that means frighten or intimidate. The young soldier refused to let the latest reports on the war daunt him.
The light began flickering before it went out. Flickering lights frighten me.
On Halloween night, in his lab, a crazy inventor created a monster to frighten his neighbors.
It was related to the word "terrify"-- to fill someone with terror, to frighten them.
The fact that he had to go in that dark room alone, made he girl frightened. This is the correct use of the word frightened.
The word 'frighten' is the verb form of the noun fright.The noun form of the verb to frighten is the gerund, frightening.The word 'frightened' is the past participle, past tense of the verb to frighten. The past participle of the verb also functions as an adjective.
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