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Frightening

adjective

Causing fear or dread or terror. Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible. "An awful risk" , "Dire news" , "A career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked" , "The dread presence of the headmaster" , "Polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was" , "A dreadful storm" , "A fearful howling" , "Horrendous explosions shook the city" , "A terrible curse"

noun

The act of inspiring with fear. Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization.

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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"Frightening" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the office, and succeeded in frightening Morten to such a degree that the journey was ...

— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland

... everywhere, she could see them distinctly at this moment—she wanted to put her face down into the green among the anemones. She could not remember how she got there or the going home, but just standing there—the green and the flowers and something in her ear buzzing and frightening her and making her cry, and somebody poking a large finger into the buzzing ear and making it very ...

— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

... very naturally took advantage of his opportunity to cut and run for it. Drew doubted my veracity when I told him about this. He called me an aerial eavesdropper and said that I ought to be ashamed to go buzzing over towns at such low altitudes, frightening housemaids, disorganizing domestic penal institutions, and generally disturbing the privacy of respectable French citizens. But I was unrepentant, for I knew that one small boy in France was thinking of me with joy. To have escaped maternal ...

— High Adventure - A Narrative of Air Fighting in France • James Norman Hall

... feet, shaking, cold fear running through his body, his nerves screaming. Had they ruined his mind? He couldn't think straight any more. Telling him things that weren't true, forcing lies into his mind—frightening him with the horrible conviction that his mind was really helpless, full of false data. What had happened to him? Where had the thought of "New Albany" come from? He shivered, now thoroughly frightened. There wasn't any ...

— Infinite Intruder • Alan Edward Nourse

... say the officers. Everybody gives a sort of howl and rushes. When you see men dropping, you rush the faster. The only thing that checks you at all is the wire twisted about everywhere. You don't want to trip over that. The frightening thing is the exposure. After being in the trenches so long you feel naked. You run like a scared child for the German trench ahead. I can't understand the iron nerve of a man who can expose his back ...

— Mr. Britling Sees It Through • H. G. Wells

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