Similar words: frighten, frightened, frighten away, frightening, frighteningly, brighten, self-righteous, brightening. Meaning: v. cause to lose courage.
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1, The children's shouts frightened off the birds.
2, The high prices have frightened off many customers.
3, Investment companies have been frightened off by fear of losing money.
4, He frightened off his attacker by calling for the police.
5, The investors were frightened off by the company's low profits that year.
6, The burglars were frightened off by the sound of our dog barking.
7, Your baby must have frightened off the intruder.
8, The Spice Girl has told pals that Dan, of the group Tomcat,(http://sentencedict.com/frighten off.html) was frightened off by her ten tattoos.
9, His success in the fraudulent libel action against the Star newspaper undoubtedly frightened off a lot of the media.
10, Tethered in the field, it hovers above the crop and frightens off pigeons, rooks and crows.
11, He tried to lure Wallace back last year but was frightened off by a ￡1m price tag.
12, It is the fear of frightening off investors that has stopped the government investing in water quality.
13, It is meant to frighten off evil spirits.
14, Low levels of capital ordinarily frighten off creditors but state guarantees give depositors and others every reason to keep financing the banks.
15, To frighten off potential predators, enormous shoal of sardines grouped together into the shape of an 80-feet dolphin below the suce in Cebu in the Philippines.
16, To frighten off potential predators, enormous shoal of sardines grouped together into the shape of an 80-feet dolphin below the surface in Cebu in the Philippines.
17, Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck, used to frighten off local wildlife.
18, I was merely about to fire a blank to frighten off some stray cats.
19, The man pulled out a gun and managed to frighten off his attackers.
20, The insect has evolved a large pair of false eyespots and bold yellow and blue markings to frighten off potential predators.
21, In ancient China, there was a form of dance which was performed at ritual ceremonies to frighten off the ghosts and to relieve people of epidemics.
22, Glowing, frightening faces emanating from the pumpkins were meant to frighten off the evil spirits thought to roam the streets on Oct. 31, the Celtic New Year's Eve.
23, We discover that the reason Madagascan cockroaches hiss is because they are scared, and hope that if they can sound like snakes, they will frighten off their attackers (usually lemurs).
24, Yuli farmers bedeck their fields with waving banners to frighten off wild geese and ducks.
25, NEW DELHI - NEW DELHI, India - They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India's Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trai and u etting pa engers.
26, NEW DELHI - NEW DELHI, India - They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, but India's Delhi Metro has hired a monkey to frighten off other monkeys from boarding trains and upsetting passengers.
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