freighten

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A form of frighten — To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.

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Meanings

verbfreighten (third-person singular simple present freightens, present participle freightening, simple past and past participle freightened)

present singular third person freightens · participle present freightening · participle past freightened · past freightened

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of frighten.

    […] soon after he had taken out a Writ, he made a Thing, which they call, I think, a Declaration, in which there was a Set of Words sufficient to freighten a Man, not over-timorous, out of his Wits, […]

    1741, The Champion
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APA

freighten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freighten

MLA

“freighten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freighten. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “freighten,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/freighten.

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