英语词汇“fright”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fright

/frʌɪt

noun [mass noun]

1A sudden intense feeling of fear: I jumped up in fright...

The conclusion was she probably died of fright from an attack by the neighbour's cat.
The reality of such fears is borne out by the evidence of tombstones testifying to those who died of fright after seeing a ghost.
Last year hundreds of birds died of fright due to fireworks being set off near the Hutchinson Road sanctuary.

Synonyms

fear, fearfulness, terror, horror, alarm, panic, dread, trepidation, uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, consternation, dismay, perturbation, disquiet, discomposure

informal jitteriness, twitchiness

scare, shock, surprise, turn, jolt, start;

the shivers, the shakes

informal the jitters, the heebie-jeebies, the willies, the creeps, the collywobbles, a cold sweat

British informal the (screaming) abdabs, butterflies (in one's stomach)

1.1 [count noun] An experience that causes one to feel sudden intense fear: she’s had a nasty fright...

‘That's an awful lot of anxious households who have nasty frights for nothing,’ says Hazel Thornton, a research Fellow at Leicester University's Department of Health Sciences.
That there are no frights in a film based on classic horror concepts doesn't seem to bother Sommers, whose only moment of something approaching real emotion comes during the end credits, when he dedicates the film to his dad.
Such natural frights in the night are acceptable.

verb [with object] archaic

Frighten: come, be comforted, he shan’t fright you...

Our long ride from Newark to Chester had wearied me, and the restive days of preparation had both excited and frighted me.
So we should be frighted about the abilities we possess.
Boswell was easily frighted when talk turned to the supernatural.

Phrases

look a fright

take fright

Origin

Old English fryhto, fyrhto (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch furcht and German furcht.

单词	fright
释义	fright /frʌɪt / noun [mass noun] 1A sudden intense feeling of fear: I jumped up in fright... The conclusion was she probably died of fright from an attack by the neighbour's cat. The reality of such fears is borne out by the evidence of tombstones testifying to those who died of fright after seeing a ghost. Last year hundreds of birds died of fright due to fireworks being set off near the Hutchinson Road sanctuary. Synonyms fear, fearfulness, terror, horror, alarm, panic, dread, trepidation, uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, consternation, dismay, perturbation, disquiet, discomposure informal jitteriness, twitchiness scare, shock, surprise, turn, jolt, start; the shivers, the shakes informal the jitters, the heebie-jeebies, the willies, the creeps, the collywobbles, a cold sweat British informal the (screaming) abdabs, butterflies (in one's stomach) 1.1 [count noun] An experience that causes one to feel sudden intense fear: she’s had a nasty fright... ‘That's an awful lot of anxious households who have nasty frights for nothing,’ says Hazel Thornton, a research Fellow at Leicester University's Department of Health Sciences. That there are no frights in a film based on classic horror concepts doesn't seem to bother Sommers, whose only moment of something approaching real emotion comes during the end credits, when he dedicates the film to his dad. Such natural frights in the night are acceptable. verb [with object] archaic Frighten: come, be comforted, he shan’t fright you... Our long ride from Newark to Chester had wearied me, and the restive days of preparation had both excited and frighted me. So we should be frighted about the abilities we possess. Boswell was easily frighted when talk turned to the supernatural. Phrases look a fright take fright Origin Old English fryhto, fyrhto (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch furcht and German furcht. Rhymes affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, white, wight, wright, write
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