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frighten someone/something away/off phrasal verb with frightenverb[ T ]uk /ˈfraɪ.tən/ us /ˈfraɪ.tən/ to make a person or animal feel fear in order to make them go away: 把…吓走 Be quiet or you'll frighten the deer off.别出声,否则会把鹿吓跑的。 to make someone so nervous that they decide not to do something: 使…紧张得不去做… Many potential buyers were frightened off by the £1 million price tag.很多潜在的买主都对这一百万英镑的价格标签望而却步。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Frightening and scaring chill someone to the bone/marrowidiom cow cow someone into something/doing something creep curdle daylight ghoulish ghoulishly heart-stopping heebie-jeebies jump scare make someone's blood curdleidiom scare scare someone into doing something scare someone shitlessidiom scare/frighten the life out of someoneidiom scaremongering send shiver witless
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