Translation for 'to frighten' from English to Portuguese

to frighten

chocar

amedrontar

terrificar

horrificar

dar medo em

pôr medo em

• The earliest known use of the hand cannon in any military conflict is also documented to have taken place in this battle by the Mamluks, who used it to frighten the Mongol armies, according to Arabic military treatises of the 13th and 14th centuries.
• When appearing, he looks fierce in order to frighten the conjurer or to see if he is courageous.
• Ringing the "bachîn" (a large brass preserving pan) at midsummer to frighten away evil spirits survived as a custom on some farms until the 1940s and has been revived as a folk performance in the 21st century.
• Alleen Pace Nilsen wrote that in 1973, "Go Ask Alice" was "the" book that teens wanted to read and that adults wanted to censor" and that the censors "felt the book did more to glorify sex and drugs than to frighten kids away from them."
• Horror fiction aims to frighten or disgust its readers.

• In Korean shamanism, "jangseung" and "sotdae" were placed at the edge of villages to frighten off demons.
• This initial response can sometimes result in a fight-or-flight response, which is the characteristic of dissonance that horror films rely on to frighten and unsettle viewers.
• Lamma Island is also one of the few remaining places in Hong Kong where traditional Chinese New Year celebrations still take place: at the stroke of midnight, fireworks will be set off by the main families of the villages to frighten away the evil spirits, sending off a deafening thunder that can last up to 30 minutes.
• He would then lead his onlookers into the shop, explaining that the Elephant Man was "not here to frighten you but to enlighten you".
• Another tactic favored by the Mongols was catapulting severed human heads over city walls to frighten the inhabitants and spread disease in the besieged city's closed confines.

• In The Wheel of Time series (1990-2013), there are stories to frighten children saying that Darkhounds run the night in the "Wild Hunt", with the Dark One himself the hunter.
• The veil is one of the oldest parts of a bridal ensemble, dating as far back as Greek and Roman times, to hide a bride "from evil spirits who might want to thwart her happiness" or to frighten the spirits away.
• In the book "The Sounds of Star Wars", the engine roar is likened to German Junker Ju 87 "Stuka" bombers, who used sirens to frighten civilians on raids.
• The caterpillar wiggles these organs to frighten away flies and predatory wasps.
• The goal of such treatment is not just punish those opposing the regime, but to frighten those who consider opposing the regime by demonstrating the power of the regime by sending a clear warning that objecting is not tolerated, and that the regime is well prepared and ready to punish the objectors through creation of total institutions dedicated to hosting political prisoners.

• Robert Graves in "The Greek Myths" (1955) asserts that the aegis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated.
• The wings may be used to frighten prey (or possibly attract it to shade) or to reduce glare; the most extreme example of this is exhibited by the black heron, which forms a full canopy with its wings over its body.
• Mormo ([...] , "Mormō") or Mormon was a female spirit in Greek folklore, whose name was invoked by mothers and nurses to frighten children to keep them from misbehaving.