verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
force/frighten/beat etc sb into submission
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Napoleon threatened to starve the country into submission.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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But his presence has failed to frighten away the opposition and 11 runners have stood their ground at the five-day declaration stage.
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The extremist characterization frightened away mainstream civil rights organizations, which made Hampton even more vulnerable to attack.
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To frighten away thieves and bring fertility.
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Guns are shot into the branches to frighten away evil spirits.
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He frightened away the best of our health.
more
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He was cold, but he was more frightened than cold.
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And the more frightened I became, the angrier I grew.
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When she dies I think she is going to be more frightened than she expects.
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The Raiders can hardly imagine a more frightening sight.
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But Daphne flew on, even more frightened than before.
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Anthony Hopkins was much more frightening as a serial killer than Currie is as the son of Satan.
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But each day the voices returned, Marsha grew more frightened .
most
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Most frightening of all, no one knew how you got it.
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That was probably the most frightened I had been.
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Most frightening of all is the time scale.
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The letter H became the most frightening in the alphabet.
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I was most frightened by not knowing what made me afraid.
off
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His success in the fraudulent libel action against the Star newspaper undoubtedly frightened off a lot of the media.
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I was merely about to fire a blank to frighten off some stray cats.
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Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
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Tethered in the field, it hovers above the crop and frightens off pigeons, rooks and crows.
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It is the fear of frightening off investors that has stopped the government investing in water quality.
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The Spice Girl has told pals that Dan, of the group Tomcat, was frightened off by her ten tattoos.
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Your baby must have frightened off the intruder.
really
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Dad steadied the bottom of the ladder but it still swung about a bit which really frightened me.
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The consequences for the financial future of the nation and even of the world are really frightening .
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I was really frightened they would hurt each other.
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The Great Slayer really frightened me.
so
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When the Blefuscans saw me, they were so frightened that they jumped out of their ships and swam to the beach.
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The prospects of this change so frightened local businesses that they pushed the state Legislature to make the initiative illegal.
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Dad was so frightened to go.
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When he sees Queequeg enter, he is frightened so much that he can do nothing but observe him.
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The girl was so frightened by this that she opened the door herself.
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If I am alone in a room, I get so frightened I start to shake.
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Susan was so frightened of being alone, that she would not go to sleep, in case we left her.
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He strained backward and he was so frightened that they had a difficult time holding him.
too
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She was too frightened to struggle.
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We were too frightened to talk.
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He was too frightened to tell police.
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They are simply too frightened , Muratovic said.
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She is too frightened , too tense, like a coiled creature ready to do harm.
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Jerry and I are too frightened and too young to take part.
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This time, she said, she was too frightened to venture in, in case the thieves were still there.
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The girl was too frightened to move.
very
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At the beginning I was very frightened .
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It had now become a very frightening ride, and chills began to run through me.
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She reassured me, as I was very frightened , and was kindness itself.
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But that just made it a very frightening experience.
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Suddenly Jane was very frightened - for herself, for Mousa, and for her unborn child.
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I get very frightened when I think about it....
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Bruno was tall and naturally pale; more so now because he was also very frightened .
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Is it reasonable to be very frightened of a crash when the chances are one in one thousand that it will happen?
■ NOUN
child
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I was never aware of being frightened as a child because I saw his fits many times.
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He in turn saw the waiting women, the frightened children , the solitary oak and the drinking soldiers.
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Male speaker I fear for Birmingham with this madman let loose, wandering around the streets frightening the children .
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She seemed frightened of the other children and avoided them for the initial part of free play.
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This is just a fable to frighten the children with a bit of free preaching thrown in.
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He cut his school off from the outside world so that nobody would see how cowed and frightened the children were.
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I wonder if the children in the engang are frightened .
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Egan recognizes the frightening ability children have to hurt their parents.
death
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It frightened me to death if you want to know.
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He never understood the fools who paid to frighten themselves to death .
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Even if a Black girl has nothing on her, it frightens her to death .
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It soon went too fast for him and the village pastor who appeared from the other direction was nearly frightened to death !
life
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Polly had never been so frightened in her life .
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In the first place, the opinion polls frightened the life out of everyone.
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One victim, who asked not to be named, said he was frightened for his life .
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But, as I predicted last Sunday, it frightened the life out of everyone at Smith Square.
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Although acquitted, he was frightened for his life .
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Of course, it frightened the life out of him.
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It frightened the life out of them.
people
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And it's frightening to some people .
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Television news, in other words, tends to frighten people .
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They think it was a trick by the Garda or the judges to frighten people and teach them a lesson.
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You are no longer frightened of certain people , situations or possible problems.
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Instead he frightens people with Hell every Sabbath.
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Although equations are a concise and accurate way of describing mathematical ideas, they frighten most people .
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They don't go around trying to frighten people just for pleasure.
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Why did he have to frighten people so much?
wit
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Knowing the cat as well as she did, Mildred could see that, despite its size, it was frightened out of its wits .
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Maura, tears running down her face, was frightened out of her wits .
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There is a beautiful little iron-grey mare here that Alejandro has frightened out of her wits and says is too wet for polo.
■ VERB
become
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It had now become a very frightening ride, and chills began to run through me.
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These children almost see too much: they are so aware of what they see that they become frightened or overwhelmed.
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He wore sinister rimless spectacles, and had the potential to become frightening .
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The Republicans, by the 1940s, were becoming frightened .
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He became greatly frightened at this and made many motions to Dorothy to relieve him, but she could not understand.
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The letter H became the most frightening in the alphabet.
feel
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Patients can feel insecure and frightened in this new environment and anxiety increases the risk of accident.
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Poor little thing, she would be feeling so lonely and frightened , and Jean's kind heart went out to her.
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Women who have never heard that such a response is not only possible but normal feel guilty and frightened .
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Daniel looked at the angry sea with its terrible waves, and he felt cold and frightened .
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They didn't know what she was talking about but they could feel she was frightened .
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He felt both elated and frightened .
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We lose our temper, feel cornered and frightened , it can be the work of an instant.
seem
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He hadn't seemed frightened and he hadn't seemed sullen.
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She seemed frightened of the other children and avoided them for the initial part of free play.
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I tried to look very understanding, very sympathetic, but it seemed to frighten him.
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Hannah had been slow to warm up to her father and initially seemed frightened by him.
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Nowadays food can seem like a frightening health hazard.
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At first he seemed frightened , but after a while he started spending almost every Saturday there.
try
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It is as if they are trying to frighten us out of doing our job.
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He also made the mistake of trying to frighten the miners with the consequence of sticking to existing conditions.
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He was trying to frighten them.
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They will try to frighten voters back to the two old parties.
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Harriet thought that Ben was trying to frighten Paul, but Paul was hysterical.
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They don't go around trying to frighten people just for pleasure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
afraid/frightened/scared etc of your own shadow
be a (beautiful/strange/frightening etc) sight to behold
frighten/scare the life out of sb
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When, however-many years later-the script finally did arrive, two things scared the life out of me.
frighten/scare/terrify sb out of their wits
scare/frighten the (living) daylights out of sb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Does the thought of death frighten you?
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Film-makers have always known that one way to capture an audience is to frighten it out of its wits.
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It frightens me to know that the rapist still hasn't been caught.
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Melissa spun round to see Eddie standing behind her. "You frightened the daylights out me!" she gasped. "I never heard you come in."
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Take that silly mask off -- you're frightening the children.
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The driver was frightened by the shots.
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The man pulled out a gun and managed to frighten off his attackers.
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Their lawyers tried to frighten us into signing the contract.
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Travis, you just frighten the dog when you play that music.
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What are you doing creeping up on me like that? You frightened the life out of me!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was broke and he was frightened.
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I think she was frightened to be too strict.
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I wasn't frightened of it.
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Many couples have been frightened by questionable results.
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Now he could imagine children being frightened of it.