Associations to the word «Frighten»

Wiktionary

FRIGHTEN, verb. To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
FRIGHTEN THE LIFE OUT OF SOMEONE, verb. To frighten someone very much.
FRIGHTEN THE PISS OUT OF, verb. (UK) (slang) (vulgar) to frighten thoroughly.

Dictionary definition

FRIGHTEN, verb. Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her".
FRIGHTEN, verb. Drive out by frightening.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope