strashit

Strashit is a transliteration of the Russian verb страшить, which means to frighten or to scare. It is an imperfective, transitive verb used to describe causing fear in someone or something. In Russian, страшить forms the present tense with endings such as страшу, страшишь, страшит, страшим, страшите, страшат, with the third-person singular form being страшит.

Grammatical use and examples. The verb is commonly found in sentences where a subject causes fear for another person or thing. For example: Темнота страшит детей (Darkness scares children). Меня страшит темнота (Darkness scares me). The root in страш- is related to the noun страх, meaning fear, and many related words share this semantic field. As an imperfective verb, страшить describes ongoing or repeated fear rather than a single complete act; speakers can form related phrases with prefixes or other aspects to indicate completed actions.

English-language references. In English-language linguistic discussions, strashit may appear as a way to represent the Russian word страшить in transliterated form. It is not a standard English verb and is typically encountered in language-learning contexts, dictionaries, or analyses of Russian grammar rather than in everyday English prose.

See also. Russian language, стра́х (fear), страхище, страхование.