Word family noun fright frighteners adjective frightened frightening frightful verb frighten adverb frighteningly frightfully
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfrightenersfright‧en‧ers /ˈfraɪtn-əz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] British English informal → put the frighteners on somebodyExamples from the Corpus
frighteners• But the bookie was already out hiring frighteners and the bet had to stand.• Why should this female start putting the frighteners on him now, after all this time?• Then she tries to reason with the frighteners through the door. 