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{
"term": "frightened",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "afraid; feeling fear",
"sensetop": "frightened of somethingfrightened of doing somethingfrightened about somethingfrightened about doing somethingfrightened to do somethingfrightened that…frightened for somebody",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a frightened child"
},
{
"text": "Don't be frightened."
},
{
"text": "He sounded frightened."
},
{
"text": "What are you frightened of?",
"contextForm": "frightened of something"
},
{
"text": "I'm frightened of walking home alone in the dark.",
"contextForm": "frightened of doing something"
},
{
"text": "I was nervous and frightened about the future.",
"contextForm": "frightened about something"
},
{
"text": "She said she was frightened about having the baby.",
"contextForm": "frightened about doing something"
},
{
"text": "I'm too frightened to ask him now.",
"contextForm": "frightened to do something"
},
{
"text": "She was frightened that the plane would crash.",
"contextForm": "frightened that…"
},
{
"text": "I'm frightened for him *(= that he will be hurt, etc.)*.",
"contextForm": "frightened for somebody"
},
{
"text": "I'd never do that. I'd be **frightened to death**."
},
{
"text": "I got frightened when he lost his temper."
},
{
"text": "Most of us are frightened by our emotions."
},
{
"text": "I'm rather frightened of dogs."
},
{
"text": "My friend is too frightened of my father to come to our house."
},
{
"text": "Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action."
},
{
"text": "She was frightened that the glass would break."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
"preposition": ["about", "by", "of"],
"phrases": [
"frightened out of your wits",
"frightened to death",
"too frightened (of somebody/something) to do something"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very easily frightened; to be very nervous",
"examples": [],
"topics": ["Feelings"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to be very frightened; to frighten somebody very much",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I was scared out of my wits!"
},
{
"text": "The latest news has scared the wits out of investors."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfraɪtnd/",
"audio": "fr/frightened/frightened__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfraɪtnd/",
"audio": "fr/frightened/frightened__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}