verb
- Cause fear in.
- usage: "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
- Drive out by frightening.
- synonyms: frighten
adjective
- Made afraid.
- usage: "the frightened child cowered in the corner"; "too shocked and scared to move"
- synonyms: scared
- Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation.
- usage: "became panicky as the snow deepened"; "felt panicked before each exam"; "trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd"; "the terrified horse bolted"
- synonyms: panicky, panicked, panic-stricken, panic-struck, terrified
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