Definition of Frighten

Frighten

To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

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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

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

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

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

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

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.
James Bovard

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

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

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

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

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Arthur Wellesley

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

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Randy Bachman

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
Jeanne Calment

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
Nils-Axel Morner

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.
Donald Pleasence

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
Charles Keating

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.
Theodore Dreiser

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.
Paul Sarbanes

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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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