FRIGHT, FRIGHTEN Copy link • FRIGHT, FRIGHTENmetum, timorem, formidinem [SYN. in FEAR, s.] alicui injicere, incutere; metum, timorem alicui afferre, inferre, offerre; aliquem in metum compellere, conjicere (to fill with fear): aliquem terrere, exterrere: terrorem alicui afferre, inferre, offerre, injicere, incutere: aliquem in terrorem conjicere: terrore aliquem complere: pavorem alicui injicere, incutere (to terrify): to frighten anybody dreadfully, perterrere, perterrefacere aliquem; pavore percellere alicujus pectus (stronger term): consternare (especially of animals; e.g., a horse): anything frightens me, facit mihi aliquid timorem; very much, aliquid me summo timore afficit. To be frightened, in metu or timore esse; metuere, timere [Vid: To FEAR]: terreri: exterreri: to be frightened at anything, facit mihi aliquid timorem; timor mihi incutitur ex aliqua re; terreri aliqua re; aliquid expavescere, exhorrescere (to tremble, shudder at anything); also, commoveri, permoveri aliqua re (to be violently agitated; Vid: Herz., Caes., B.G., 2, 12); at anybody or anybody’s sight, alicujus aspectu conturbari, alicujus conspectum horrere: to be dreadfully frightened, timore magno affici; terrore percuti, perterreri; at anything, aliqua re; aliquid me summo timore afficit: they were or became so much frightened, as to, etc., tantus repente terror invasit, ut, etc.: to be frightened about anybody, in metu esse propter aliquem; alicui metuere or timere: my friends are much frightened about me, maximo de nobis timore affecti sunt amici: they were all much frightened, timor omnium incessit magnus; timor incessit omnes magnus: they were much frightened at, etc., timor magnus alicujus rei incessit: I am so frightened that I can hardly speak, mihi lingua metu haeret: 1 am frightened out of my senses, vix sum apud me, ita commotus est animus metu.