make sb afraid

Frequency: 7.250.3 per million words

To cause someone to feel fear.

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Examples (10)

  • What has made you so deeply afraid of your boss?
  • The loud thunderclaps made the little child afraid.
  • His menacing look was enough to make anyone afraid.
  • Stories about ghosts in the old house made the teenagers afraid to enter.
  • The government's new surveillance policy made people afraid to speak freely.
  • The constant news of the war makes me afraid for the safety of my family.
  • A sudden, unexplained noise in the empty library made him afraid.
  • The bully tried to make the smaller kids afraid by stealing their lunch money.
  • Nothing seemed to make the fearless explorer afraid.
  • The purpose of these horror stories is to make the reader afraid.