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Frightened

adjective

Made afraid. Synonym: scared. "Too shocked and scared to move"

Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation. Synonyms: panic-stricken, panic-struck, panicked, panicky, terrified. "Felt panicked before each exam" , "Trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd" , "The terrified horse bolted"

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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"Frightened" Quotes from Famous Books

... be frightened out of their opinions, yet they may be persuaded out of them; they may be touched by the affecting earnestness of serious conversation, and allured by the attractive beauty of a consistently serious life. And while a young woman ought to dread ...

— Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness • John Mather Austin

... darling?" said Irene. "Are you really frightened? Would you like to come into my bed? Have you had a ...

— A Modern Tomboy - A Story for Girls • L. T. Meade

... relation of which has been as a revelation to the world—many spots I have still in keeping of lovely fields or horrid rocks peopled by the beautiful or the tremendous which I keep in reserve for my future worshippers—to one of those whose grim terrors frightened sleep from the eye I formerly led you[91] but you now need more pleasing images & although I will not promise you to shew you any new scenes yet if I lead you to one often visited by my followers you will at least see new combinations that will sooth ...

— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

... man in one day, but by degrees. He cannot make a clean sweep of his habits and take up the silken bonds of duty, all in a moment. The inspiration of a first love gives him the capacity, but he has to learn how to use it. I never saw what I had neglected till I had frightened her away from me. But what is there that I have not done, since then, to win her? I have gone very gently to work and tried from every side to get at her—I have tempted her with gifts and with penitence—but you can see for yourself she shrinks from me more and more. My thoughts, wearied with longings ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... settled upon his mind much in the manner of mental vampires. He knew that Charlie was threatened, and he knew that Charlie knew it, and made no attempt to protect himself. He knew that Charlie was also scared—frightened out of all control of himself in a manner that was absurdly contradictory. He knew that he was now at the saloon for the purpose of drowning his hopeless feelings in the maddening spirit O'Brien dispensed. He knew that his own ...

— The Law-Breakers • Ridgwell Cullum

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