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FRIGHT

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fright I. s.

1. spaimă, teamă, groază;

to have / to get a fright a se speria, a trage o spaimă;

to give smb. a fright a speria pe cineva, a trage cuiva o spaimă;

to put smb. in a fright a băga pe cineva în sperieţi;

to take fright a) a se speria, a trage o spaimă; b) (despre cal) a se speria; a lua vânt, a se ambala;

in a fright cuprins de spaimă, îngrozit, înspăimântat.

2. (fig.) sperietoare, monstru, ciumă, moarte, drac; caricatură (de om);

she looked a perfect fright parcă era moartea în vacanţă.

fright II. verb tr. (rar, poetic) vezi frighten (1).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A squirrel, running around the base of the trunk, came full upon him, and gave him a great fright.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I can’t sleep for fright.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whereupon he betrayed a great fright, and cried aloud that he was a sick man and knew nothing, but would tell what he knew.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

You're in a fright, and don't know what you say or mean.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She was parrylized with fright, but she went, and oh, what do you think he did?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I awaked at the noise he made, and observed him to deliver his message in some disorder; after which he went to my master, and in a great fright gave him a very confused account of what he had seen.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

She does not know how to hold her tongue, as you must perceive, and I am sure I was in the greatest fright in the world t'other day, when Edward's name was mentioned by Sir John, lest she should out with it all.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He gave a great start of fright.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

In the midst of this distress, I observed them all to run away on a sudden as fast as they could; at which I ventured to leave the tree and pursue the road, wondering what it was that could put them into this fright.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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