frighting
frighting is the present participle and gerund of fright.
Meaning of fright
Verb
fright (third-person singular simple present frights, present participle frighting, simple past and past participle frighted)
- To frighten.
- Are not you he […] That frights the maidens of the villagery […] ?c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
Noun
frighting (plural frightings)
- An instance of frightening; a fright;
- and ever as great afflictions as most of our Brethren and sufferers for his Name, both in mockings, scoffings, scornings, reproaches, stripes, contradictions, perils at Land, and perils at Sea, fiery tryals, cruel threatenings, grief of heart, sorrow of soul, heats and colds, fastings and...1662, Katharine Evans, This is a short relation of some of the cruel sufferings (For the Truths sake) of Katharine Evans & Sara Chevers, in the Inquisition in the Isle of Malta, page 31
- And now not once evoked, lies Effort dead Before the frightings of a shadowed dread?1907, Edwin Exon, Poems, page 51
Forms of frighting
| plural | frightings |
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Questions about frighting
- What does frighting mean?
- Frighting means an instance of frightening; a fright;.
- What is frighting the present participle and gerund of?
- Frighting is the present participle and gerund of fright.
- What part of speech is frighting?
- Frighting is a noun.
- What is the plural of frighting?
- The plural of frighting is frightings.
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