Definition of Frighten

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Definition of Frighten
	Frighten To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify. Related Definitions: Affright, Alarm, Disturb, Fear, Fright, Into, Of, Or, State, Terrify, Throw, To, With

Frighten Quotations

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.
Woodrow Wilson

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Victor Hugo

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
Billy Sunday

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.
Billy Sunday

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.
Linus Torvalds

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.
Sophocles

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
Elizabeth I

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Nat King Cole

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Frighten Translations

frighten in Dutch is doen schrikken, schrik aanjagen
frighten in French is effaroucher, effrayer, effrayons, effrayent
frighten in Latin is territo
frighten in Norwegian is skremme
frighten in Spanish is espantar, asustar

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