(v. t.) To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Labour minister, Nicholas Brown, said the public were frightened they "were going to be spied on" and that "illegally obtained" information would find its way to the public domain.
(2) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) Subjective measures of anxiety, frightening cognitions and body sensations were obtained across the phases.
(5) There is no support in the system and it’s a very frightening and distressing situation to be in.
(6) "The problem in the community is that the elderly who live on their own on ground floors are frightened to open the windows because of vandalism and burglary," he says.
(7) You say that she taught you not to feel frightened.
(8) The facts speak for themselves but it was Mayweather’s refusal to address the allegations that was particularly frightening.
(9) Despite the warnings, new protesters of all ages continued to arrive in the camp, insisting they would not be frightened away.
(10) "I heard five explosions during the protest this evening and I was frightened - I just wanted to get out of there.
(11) I briefly consider logging into a relative’s AOL account and entering the keywords “the sadness of constantly frightened old white people”, but that seems too general.
(12) Regardless of fringe rucks, these protests are more likely to lay the ground for wider public and industrial campaigns than frighten them off.
(13) Ukraine frightened people here,” says one diplomatic source in Minsk.
(14) This is the most frightening picture you will ever see.
(15) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(16) Narcolepsy, with its specific symptomatology is an intriguing but often frightening disease.
(17) The comedian Stephen Mangan called Cameron’s warning “panicky” and “daft”, while another comedian, Vikki Stone, shared a picture of herself hiding in the shed with a colander on her head and said: “Dear David Cameron I’m frightened.
(18) Of those who did not read the notes, only four (17%) were frightened by what they might read, while others stated that they did not have their glasses, could not read, did not think it was their place, thought the notes would not be interesting, or did not understand the policy.
(19) Sonia Zambakides, head of Save the Children's Somalia emergency response, added: "While there has been an improvement in these areas thanks to the international aid effort, children are still dying at a frightening rate across Somalia.
(20) The reality of the plan you went along with and helped execute was that your children were to be frightened out of sleep in the middle of the night and rescued by their father from a fire that should never have been started.
Gally
Definition:
(v. t.) To frighten; to worry.
(a.) Like gall; bitter as gall.
(n.) See Galley, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) We found that the Gallie system generally allowed significantly more rotation in flexion, extension, axial rotation, and lateral bending than the other three fixation techniques.
(2) Galli said there were already about 200,000 hospitalisations of women who have undergone a clandestine termination every year, and a suspected 1 million illegal abortions before the epidemic.
(3) Aldolase activity was diminished by 57 and 32% in A. galli and H. gallinae, respectively, with 10(-4)M levamisole.
(4) the sphenoid, ethmoid, and occipital bones) and to abnormal spatial relationships between the cribriform plate and the crista galli, resulting in a positional disarrangement of the points of basal attachment of the dura matter.
(5) The anterior end of the olfactory groove was first classified into three types, i.e., normal type, obliterated type (obliterated by cancellous bone) and dangerous type (with Recessus cristae galli and Torus olfactorius).
(6) Inorganic analysis of Ascaridia galli has shown the levels of sodium, potassium, copper, magnesium, calcium, zinc, iron, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and cobalt (expressed as percentage of dry weight) to be higher in females than in males.
(7) Efficacies of 14.3-89% against Ascaridia galli were obtained with dietary levels of 125-1000 ppm Sch 18099 fed for 7 days.
(8) Therefore, in order to evaluate the efficiency of various cervical fixation techniques, we determined the translations at the posterior arch of C1 for four C1-C2 posterior techniques: Gallie, Brooks, Magerl, and Halifax.
(9) Galli confirmed that Washington has yet to file a formal request seeking extradition.
(10) Atlantoaxial subluxation has been treated conventionally by Gallie posterior fusion.
(11) Furthermore selective phytotoxic activity against two important infesting graminacae, Echinochloa crus-galli R.S.
(12) Ascaridia galli and Heterakis gallinae obtained from the common fowl Gallus gallus were exposed to 10(-2)-10(-5)M levamisole and albendazole; both compounds caused death of the parasites in vitro.
(13) L-(U-14C) aspartic acid, L-(U-14C) alanine and L-(U-14C) leucine uptake by Ascaridia galli was found to be a non-linear function of time and limiting substrate concentration.
(14) B. galli is assigned to the kingdom Protista, type Rhizopoda, class Lobosea, subclass Gymnamoebia, order Blastocystida.
(15) The chromosome number of A. galli is also 2n = 10 for female specimens and 2n = 9 for males ones.
(16) There are weak points that are not acceptable,” Philippe Galli, prefect for the Seine-Saint-Denis region that is in part responsible for security at the stadium, told Le Parisien newspaper .
(17) Glucose-6-phosphatase is present in A. galli and C. cotylophorum and absent in R. cesticillus.
(18) The substrate affinity constant (Kt) and maximum apparent velocity of glucose uptake in A. galli were found to be 9.09 mM and 26.67 mM per 100 mg tissue dry weight per min at 37 degrees C.
(19) N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate transferase was demonstrated in the microsomal fraction of Ascaridia galli.
(20) The Brooks (1.6 mm) and Halifax (1 mm) were not different from each other, Magerl, or Gallie.