Frighten vs Frighted - What's the difference?
frighten | frighted |
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
(fright)
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
* 1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2:
Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
As verbs the difference between frighten and frighted
is that frighten is to disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify while frighted is (fright).frighten
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* See alsofrighted
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(head)fright
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(wikipedia fright)- With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic, stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
- Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
- You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;
- She did this during even her husband's life
- I recommend as much to every wife.