fright English

Meaning fright meaning

What does fright mean?

Definitions in simple English

fright Noun

— A strong and sudden fear.

— A thing that scares someone. Seeing someone with a gun gave me quite a fright.

fright Verb

— To scare someone. Seeing someone with a gun frightened me very much.

fright

— noun (= fear) an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

— verb (= frighten, affright) cause fear in The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me Ghosts could never affright her

Synonyms fright synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fright?

fright English » English

fear

terror

dread

alarm

scare

horror

panic

consternation

apprehension

frighten

affright

scarecrow

anxiety

timidity

surprise

funk

fearfulness

dismay

awe

trepidation

startle

shock

monster

misgiving

habdabs

bugaboo

amazement

worry

vexation

unnerve

trembling

timorousness

suspense

stampede

something frightening

shyness

scariness

relief

regret

rash

perplexity

pavor

paranoia

over-excitement

nervousness

mental disorder

kerfuffle

jolt

jitter

intimidate

Topics fright topics

What do people use fright to talk about?

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

• What words refer to the feeling of fear?
  fear (n) fright alarm foreboding horror panic (n) terror trepidation
• What words refer to feeling suddenly afraid because of something that happens?
  get a fright panic (v) go white as a sheet nearly jump out of your skin
• What words refer to causing someone to feel afraid?
  frighten give someone a fright frighten the life out of someone alarm (v) cow (v) give someone the creeps daunt intimidate petrify rattle (v) scare spook startle terrify terrorize unnerve make your hair stand on end make your blood run cold

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad Afraid

Nervous

• What words refer to the feeling of being nervous?
  nerves nervousness tension unease stage fright

Examples fright examples

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Simple sentences

Helen jumped in fright at the strange sound.

I had stage fright at first, but I got over it quickly.

Aside from fright, she was not injured.

A little stage fright is normal before a concert.

Half-dead with fright, and trembling in every limb, the poor children lay down to sleep on a heap of straw in the corner of the hut.

The horse took fright and bolted.

Tom couldn't understand Mary's nervousness before the act before he himself got stage fright.

Do you sometimes get stage fright?

He turned pale with fright.

You gave me a fright.

Movie subtitles

Is it from the eternal fright of the pyre that you get drunk every night, you poor old woman of the Middle Ages?

He must have died of fright.

She still has her stage fright.

It's not stage fright.

Exposure to catastrophes such as explosions, earthquakes and railway accidents - in short, exposure to fright and horror often triggers insanity.

You gave us a fright!

To whiten my hair, a scream of fright.

The insane asylums are full of people who've lost their minds through fright.

How much fright he's got in him.

It had a feeling of fright in it.

I'm sorry. You gave me a fright.

Oh, I must look a fright!

When she comes into the door, I'll give her a right good fright.

Don, can you die from fright?

Can you imagine the fright and the loneliness of a boy. without that love and understanding?

It died. It died of fright when I tried to take it in my hand.

He gave me an awful fright dressed up like that.

It's me. Cuffy. Odd's gallows, what a fright thou gavest me.

Oh, I must look a fright! Oh!

I have stage fright, and my hands get wet.

You gave me a fright.

I must look a fright.

It's not stage fright. It's something more.

You gave us a fright! Go change, damn it!

Now it is Laforet. I might have stage fright.

You did give us a fright.

It died of fright when I tried to take it in my hand.

Stabbed him out of fright when he discovered where she was hiding.

You gave me a fright, you did.

I'll be found dead in me bed in the morning, Stiff with fright, and me death will be on you.

Stage fright makes me sweat buckets.

All our guests leaving in a fright. and Kate has danced with every young man here except Peter.

News and current affairs

It is a bit like stage fright.

People's weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.

During the winter of 1976, when Premier Zhou Enlai (viewed as a relative liberal in the Maoist hierarchy) died, tens of thousands of people spontaneously flooded Tiananmen Square, giving the Party a tremendous fright.