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fright

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"Sudden fear"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /fɹaɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted fghirtStarts with FEnds with T1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A sudden feeling of fear.

Word origin

From Middle English fright, furht, from Old English fryhtu, fyrhto (“fright, fear, dread, trembling, horrible sight”), from Proto-Germanic *furhtį̄ (“fear”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥k- (“to fear”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Are not you he […] That frights the maidens of the villagery […] ?

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