: feeling fear : made to feel afraid
a badly frightened child
The farmer was hurrying out into the road, and his wife was standing at the gate, looking very frightened.—
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I am frightened of the dark
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The frightened Maltese was swimming in circles, but Desalvo and his colleagues were able to pull her to safety.
—Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
The first few attempts to free the dog failed, then the rescuers cleverly used a tarp to hoist the frightened animal to safety.
—Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Lopez was seen in shocking footage, since shared publicly, of the man grabbing a frightened cat, later identified as Mittens, and hurling her across a front yard not once, but twice, before she was picked up again.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
At the same time, Trump and his team are dangling cash to get frightened migrants already in the U.S. to voluntarily depart.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 6 May 2025
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Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 10 May 2025
The first few attempts to free the dog failed, then the rescuers cleverly used a tarp to hoist the frightened animal to safety.
—Kendall Malinchock, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Lopez was seen in shocking footage, since shared publicly, of the man grabbing a frightened cat, later identified as Mittens, and hurling her across a front yard not once, but twice, before she was picked up again.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
At the same time, Trump and his team are dangling cash to get frightened migrants already in the U.S. to voluntarily depart.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 6 May 2025
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“Frightened.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/frightened. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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