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Definition of Fright

Fright

A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.

To alarm suddenly; to shock by causing sudden fear; to terrify; to scare.

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Fright Quotations

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Henry Rollins

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
Stevie Nicks

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
Thomas More

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
Alan Rickman

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Walter Benjamin

I have big, big stage fright.
Andrea Bocelli

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
Ethel Merman

Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
Charlotte Gainsbourg

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.
Sean Penn

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
Faith Hill

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.
Andy Partridge

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
Ednita Nazario

But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
Eddie Bracken

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
Thomas Howard

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Fright Translations

fright in Danish is angst
fright in Dutch is angst
fright in German is Schrecken, Schreck
fright in Italian is spaventi, spavento, paura
fright in Norwegian is skrekk
fright in Spanish is espanto, miedoso, susto

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