English
Verb
frighten (third-person singular simple present frightens, present participle frightening, simple past and past participle frightened)
- To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
- Avery puts a sheet over her head, pretends to be a ghost to frighten Emily.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:frighten
Translations
to disturb with fear
- Arabic: خَشَّى m (ḵaššā), أَفْزَعَ (ʾafzaʿa)
- Moroccan Arabic: خلع (khle3)
- Bulgarian: плаша (bg) (plaša), изплашвам (bg) (izplašvam)
- Catalan: espantar (ca), espaventar (ca), esporuguir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 嚇唬 (zh), 吓唬 (zh) (xiàhu), 嚇 (zh), 吓 (zh) (xià)
- Czech: vystrašit
- Dutch: bang (nl) maken (nl), beangstigen (nl)
- Esperanto: timigi
- Finnish: pelottaa (fi), säikyttää (fi)
- French: effrayer (fr), redouter (fr), terrifier (fr)
- Friulian: spaurî
- Georgian: შეშინება (šešineba)
- German: Angst machen, erschrecken (de), schrecken (de)
- Greek: τρομάζω (el) (tromázo)
- Irish: cuir eagla ar
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- Italian: spaurire, spaventare (it)
- Japanese: 怖がらせる (こわがらせる, kowagaraseru)
- Latin: terreō
- Latvian: baidīt, biedēt, biedināt
- Malay: menakutkan
- Nahuatl: tetzauhqui
- Pashto: وېرول (werawël)
- Persian: ترساندن (fa) (tarsândan)
- Polish: przestraszyć (pl), nastraszyć
- Portuguese: intimidar (pt), amedrontar (pt)
- Romanian: speria (ro), înspăimânta (ro)
- Russian: пуга́ть (ru) impf (pugátʹ), испуга́ть (ru) pf (ispugátʹ), напуга́ть (ru) pf (napugátʹ)
- Spanish: atemorizar (es)
- Swahili: ogofia (sw)
- Swedish: skrämma (sv)
- Telugu: భయపడు (te) (bhayapaḍu)
- Turkish: korkutmak (tr)
- Walloon: sbarer (wa), fé sogne (wa)
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