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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
frightened
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ Joan Halton used her husband to express the emotional greed of which she was so frightened in herself.
▪ The boy stared at its departing form, amazed that the bird should be so frightened.
▪ There could have been a serious road accident with a dozen or so frightened animals careering about country lanes.
too
▪ Waiters would appear shortly, if they weren't too frightened of Quiss being in a bad mood.
▪ D.H. And no criticism of the drugs or medical regime because they're too frightened.
▪ But she's too frightened to go back home.
▪ They're all too frightened to talk ... both families want to be moved out of Oxford.
▪ Some one must have buried them when they were too frightened to hand them in to the police station.
▪ I wanted to scream and scream but I was too frightened.
▪ Female speaker I was too frightened, all I heard was 3 shots, a bump and a scream.
▪ Although she was just yards from the safety of nearby houses she was too frightened to call out.
very
▪ He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams.
▪ It was a very frightened and concerned decade indeed.
▪ I knew he was getting out soon so I was very frightened.
▪ The girl upstairs, who was already very frightened, felt desperate when she heard the terrible things they were shouting.
▪ He says that the car kept going - then three other flashes were seen - everyone was very frightened.
■ NOUN
child
▪ Marina is a new Anne Frank, one of 80,000 frightened children caught in an ugly, vicious siege.
▪ Firemen eventually managed to untangle the frightened child from the bars by prising them apart.
▪ They become the parent, the patient the helpless and often frightened child.
▪ He observed her narrow hands as she touched the frightened child with light, reassuring caresses.
▪ The colour went from their six faces, and they caught hold of each other like frightened children.
▪ Without another word, Bert Rafferty gently picked up the frightened child and made towards the cliff.
▪ And who even in the hour of his death had time to spare for a frightened child.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
afraid/frightened/scared etc of your own shadow
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a frightened animal
▪ A lot of people are frightened of dentists.
▪ Alice kept perfectly still, frightened that the dog might attack her.
▪ Are you frightened of the dark?
▪ Don't be frightened, it's only thunder.
▪ He was frightened of making mistakes.
▪ I was frightened my parents would get divorced, and wished that there was something I could do to make them happy again.
▪ I was frightened to move in case the branch broke.
▪ Two frightened children were hiding in a corner of the room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I was frightened in case anyone came in.
▪ She stared up into the big frightened eyes.
▪ She stepped off the pavement, and a car with squealing brakes drove her back again, frightened and flustered.
▪ She was frightened, and she sank to the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frightened

Frighten \Fright"en\, v. t. [imp. Frightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Frightening.] [See Fright, v. t.] To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.

More frightened than hurt.
--Old Proverb.

Wiktionary
frightened
  1. afraid; suffering from fear. v

  2. (en-past of: frighten)

WordNet
frightened
  1. adj. thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation; "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted" [syn: panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified]

  2. made afraid; "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move" [syn: scared]

Usage examples of "frightened".

The baying was very faint now, and it ceased altogether as I approached the ancient grave I had once violated, and frightened away an abnormally large horde of bats which had been hovering curiously around it.

I was really frightened because I thought, if she realised we were Aboriginal, she might have the children taken away.

To prevent, therefore, any such suspicions, so prejudicial to the credit of an historian, who professes to draw his materials from nature only, we shall now proceed to acquaint the reader who these people were, whose sudden appearance had struck such terrors into Partridge, had more than half frightened the postboy, and had a little surprized even Mr.

Jannis saw how Ali Aga had fallen in the world, and suddenly he felt very fond of this Turk, whose misery frightened him.

But now, with the others gone, leaving the frightened Valeman alone with this unpredictable giant, Flick found himself unable to escape that terrible awesomeness that formed the essence of this strange man.

I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.

After I had left her I began to examine the nature of my feelings towards her, and they frightened me, for I could neither behave towards Mdlle.

The French spread victorious across the land, and these Riflemen were bereft and frightened.

When he thought of all that Blinky said, his heart went pit-a-pat so loudly that he became frightened at the very thought of running away.

Nearer and nearer came the chuff, chuff until Blinky became quite frightened.

Ivram and Maryam were the two people in the whole village to whom Bora could admit that he was frightened.

The boy had not been this frightened in a long time, not since he and Bozo had taken part in the attack on Kuur, the underground citadel of the Mind Wizards on the Far Side of Callisto.

Was it because Brule had taken control of the situation from her own frightened, faltering hands?

Then he had walked up the byre, leaving her puzzled and frightened and feeling very exposed to whatever it was that emanated from him.

When everybody had gone to bed, she came into my room with a little frightened manner, calculated to redouble my ardour, but by great good luck, feeling I had a necessity, I took the light and ran to the place where I could satisfy it.