{
    "term": "frightened",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "afraid; feeling fear",
            "sensetop": "frightened of somethingfrightened of doing somethingfrightened about somethingfrightened about doing somethingfrightened to do somethingfrightened that…frightened for somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a frightened child"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be frightened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He sounded frightened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are you frightened of?",
                    "contextForm": "frightened of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm frightened of walking home alone in the dark.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened of doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was nervous and frightened about the future.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She said she was frightened about having the baby.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened about doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm too frightened to ask him now.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was frightened that the plane would crash.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened that…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm frightened for him *(= that he will be hurt, etc.)*.",
                    "contextForm": "frightened for somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'd never do that. I'd be **frightened to death**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I got frightened when he lost his temper."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of us are frightened by our emotions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm rather frightened of dogs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My friend is too frightened of my father to come to our house."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Simon was badly frightened at the result of his action."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was frightened that the glass would break."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"],
                "preposition": ["about", "by", "of"],
                "phrases": [
                    "frightened out of your wits",
                    "frightened to death",
                    "too frightened (of somebody/​something) to do something"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very easily frightened; to be very nervous",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Feelings"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be very frightened; to frighten somebody very much",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I was scared out of my wits!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The latest news has scared the wits out of investors."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfraɪtnd/",
                "audio": "fr/frightened/frightened__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfraɪtnd/",
                "audio": "fr/frightened/frightened__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}