Frighten

Definition

frighten / 'fraÇtn / v အထိတ္တလန္႔ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ စိုးရိမ္ ပူပန္ေစသည္။ Sorry, I didn't mean to frighten you. ❍ Loud traffic frightens horses. ❍ It frightens me that so many countries now possess nuclear weapons. ❏ frighten sb/sth away / off [ PHRV ] ေျခာက္ထုတ္သည္။ ေမာင္းထုတ္သည္။ The alarm frightened the burglars away. ❍ The children's shouts frightened off the birds. ❍ The stock market crash has frightened off investors. ❏ frightened adj ~ (of sth / of doing sth) ; ~ (that…) အထိတ္တလန္႔ျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ေသာ။ တုန္လႈပ္ေနေသာ။ အလန္႔တၾကားျဖစ္ေနေသာ။ Frightened children were calling for their mothers. ❍ He looked very frightened as he spoke. ❍ He's frightened of spiders. ❍ They're frightened (at the prospect) of losing power. ❍ I was frightened that the plane might crash. ❍ AFRAID ❏ frightening / 'fraÇtnÇŋ / adj ထိတ္လန္႔ဖြယ္ရာ။ a frightening possibility / situation / development ❍ It is frightening even to think of the horrors of nuclear war. ❏ frighteningly adv အလြန္အမင္း။ လြန္လြန္ကဲကဲ။ အလြန္ အၾကဴး။ The film was frighteningly realistic. ❏ frighten sb into doing sth [ PHRV ] … ျဖစ္ေအာင္ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေစသည္။ News of the robberies frightened many people into fitting new locks on their doors.

Examples

1. Stop it! You’re frightening the children!
2. The thought of war frightens me.
3. It frightens me how quickly children grow up these days.
4. [frighten someone doing something] : Adverts that frighten people into buying expensive security equipment