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frighten the life out of someone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables
fright-en the life out of -some-one
IPA
45
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To frighten someone very much.

Inflected Forms

frightens the life out of someone (present, singular) frightening the life out of someone (participle, present) frightened the life out of someone (participle, past) frightened the life out of someone (past)

Questions

What does frighten the life out of someone mean?
To frighten someone very much.

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