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Definition of Frightening

1. Adjective. Causing fear or dread or terror. "A terrible curse"

Definition of Frightening

1. Adjective. causing fear; of capable of causing fear; scary ¹

2. Adjective. awful ¹

3. Verb. (present participle of frighten) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Frightening

1. frighten [v] - See also: frighten

Lexicographical Neighbors of Frightening

Literary usage of Frightening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield, Robert Gould Street (1913)
"Street cars frightening animals. — That street car companies have a right to the use of their tracks for running their cars necessarily implies that they ..."

2. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1898)
"frightening Horses—Blowing Whistle.—See exhaustive note on frightening Horses, 5 Am. & Eng. R. Cas., NS 291. A railway company is not liable for injuries ..."

3. The woman in white by Wilkie Collins (1871)
"... I hardly knew why— hesitated from dread of frightening and distressing her—called, at last, tut not loudly enough to attract the driver's attention. ..."

4. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases in the by Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson (1890)
"frightening Horses. Driver being compelled to wait on account of freight train ... frightening Horse. When company permits cars to obstruct crossing more ..."

5. Rights, Remedies, and Practice, at Law, in Equity, and Under the Codes: A by John Davison Lawson (1890)
"Objects frightening Horses.—A person who negligently or unlawfully places or leaves in the highway an object which, from its appearance, ..."

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