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fright

/fraɪt/

frightnoun

frights

/fraɪt/

Translations

испуг

The sudden noise gave her a fright.

Внезапный шум напугал её.

страх

He was paralyzed with fright when he saw the ghost.

Он был парализован от страха, когда увидел привидение.

Additional translations

переполох

ужас

Definitions

A sudden intense feeling of fear.

She awoke in the middle of the night with a fright after hearing a loud noise.

An experience or event that causes a sudden feeling of fear.

The haunted house gave him quite a fright.

A person or thing that looks extremely shocking, ugly, or grotesque.

Get some sleep—you look a fright after the overnight flight.

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frightverb

frighted

Past Simple

frighted

Past Participle

frighting

Gerund

/fraɪt/

Archaic or dialectal transitive verb meaning ‘to frighten; to scare’.

Definitions

To frighten or scare someone or something.

The sudden thunderclap frighted the horses.

Synonyms

frightadjective

Used attributively before nouns with the sense ‘intended to frighten’ (e.g., ‘fright night’).

Definitions

Intended to frighten or capable of causing fright; frightening.

The carnival features a fright maze every October.