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.