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What does frighten mean?

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Verb
  1. To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright
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Frequently these informants were simply adolescents seeking to frighten peers or parents, by fabricating evidence of cult ritual.
Sheep frighten easily when chased causing them to possibly run into nearby rivers, sheughs or undergrowth.
This mute of hounds, dashing all over the pace, split the morning air with enough hideous din to frighten any fox out of the commune.
And still, given a set of circumstances that frighten me by touching unhealed sensitivities in my own heart, I become flustered.
The idea of having his child did not frighten me as much as the thought of myself being forced to marry him or subject a child to his treatment.
Men wearing masks dance among them in an attempt to frighten the child, who has to walk clockwise through this scene of carnage.

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