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Adjective frightening has 1 sense
- awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible - causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
Antonym: unalarming (indirect, via alarming)
Noun frightening has 1 sense
- terrorization, terrorisation, frightening - to inspire with fear
--1 is a kind of bullying, intimidation
Verb frighten has 2 senses
- frighten, fright, scare, affright - cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"
--1 is one way to stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
Sample sentence:
The bad news will frighten him
- frighten - drive out by frightening
--2 is one way to chase away, drive out, turn back, drive away, dispel, drive off, run off
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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