frighten
verb (used with object)
to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
unfrightening
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a word derived from
frighten.
Example Sentences
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Good things — like 11 soft, unfrightening final outs for the Cubs — befall you.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2017
Today the clock is still on Bulletin's cover, but it has shrunk to an inconspicuous size, and registers a relatively unfrightening 11:48.
From Time Magazine Archive
Partly this refusal to recognise that, though dead, Mother was actually gone from them, no longer was sharing their little jokes and duties, was because death came with such steady, appreciable, unfrightening steps.
From Once Aboard the Lugger by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
But we kept on going, making our movements as unfrightening as we could to counteract the dread of us that they must have still felt.
From Stamped Caution by Gallun, Raymond Z.
