frighteners

Word family  noun fright frighteners adjective frightened frightening frightful verb frighten adverb frighteningly frightfully

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fright·en·ers /ˈfraɪtn-əz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] British English informal  put the frighteners on somebody informal THREATENto make someone do what you want by threatening them 恐吓某人〔使其做某事〕

Examples 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.

fright·en·ers nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus someone by do to make want you what

frighteners
fright‧en‧ers /ˈfraɪtn-əz $ -ərz/ noun [plural] British English informalput the frighteners on somebody to make someone do what you want by threatening them

fright·en·ersBrE /ˈfraɪtnəz/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfraɪtnərz/ 🔊 noun [plural] ●put the ˈfrighteners on sb(BrE, slang) to threaten sb in order to make them do what you want 威逼，胁迫（某人做某事）