0 to make (someone) afraid -- polekat, vystrašit
She was frightened by a large dog.
For instance, when a child is scared, the parent tells the child not to be frightened.
The intention was plainly to frighten the ruler into making his request at once.
Another behavioral precursor of disorganized attachment might be frightening parental behavior in the absence of maltreatment.
Thus, frightening and physically painful ordeals, such as those endured in rites of passage, will impact memory and belief.
By the evidence of her own material, women are frightening enough; our powers need not be explained away as masks for hidden hormones.
The total experience is not alienating or frightening, as it may be in a hall of mirrors.
There is no literal attempt to illustrate the frightening exponential curve of our own blind technological revolution, for example.
One is frightened to criticize for fear of being labeled as a member of this or that group.
