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fright
 
NOUN:1. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, funk, horror, panic, terror, trepidation. Slang : cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See FEAR. 2. Informal. An unsightly object: mess, monstrosity, ugliness. Informal : sight, ugly. See BEAUTIFUL.
VERB:Archaic. To fill with fear: affright, alarm, frighten, panic, scare, scarify2, startle, terrify, terrorize. Idioms: make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, scare silly (or stiff) , scare the daylights out of. See FEAR.
 
 
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