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"Sudden fear"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (FRIGHT).
Definitions
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 […] ?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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