Definitions for fright

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Spelling: [frahyt]
IPA: /fraɪt/

Fright is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in fright (fghirt).

Definitions for fright

noun

  1. sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
  2. a person or thing of shocking, grotesque, or ridiculous appearance.

verb (used with object)

  1. to frighten.

Origin of fright

before 900; Middle English; Old English frytu, fyrhto; akin to German Furcht

Examples for fright

Actress Emily Montague recalls how she survived the big vampire attack in 'fright Night.'

I shall get no sleep to-night and to-morrow look like a fright to pay for it—no!

In its fright, it had probably mistaken us for a band of buffalo.

Now that she has reached the stage of fright, I have great fun with her.

They said to my face that I was a beauty; at Mr. Jones's, they said I was a fright.

Nonetheless, they should question the perspective and intentions of those on the fright wing they find common cause with.

Take this sentence: "With the snake in sight, the horse reeled his paws in fright."

Kate got a fright when she thought she'd mislaid a family engagement ring that Prince William gave her in 2010.

Finally he grabs that blanket [and] I counted eight on one double mattress, eight children held together—dying of fright.

It is nothing but nervousness and fright at that horrible firing.

Word Value for fright
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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