Usually means: Become suddenly scared or alarmed.
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  1. take fright: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. take fright: Merriam-Webster
  3. take fright: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. take fright: Collins English Dictionary
  5. take fright: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. take fright: Dictionary.com
  7. take fright: Wiktionary

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  1. take fright: Legal dictionary

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▸ verb:  To suddenly become scared, frightened or panicked.

Similar:
panic, do someone a frighten, run scared, put the frighteners on someone, get the wind up, spook out, funk, fley, scare the hell out of, geek out, more...

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Similar:
panic, do someone a frighten, run scared, put the frighteners on someone, get the wind up, spook out, funk, fley, scare the hell out of, geek out, more...



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