Frighten Synonyms and Antonyms

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To strike with fear
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. scare
  2. affright
  3. alarm
  4. terrify
  5. startle
  6. panic
  7. terrorize
  8. intimidate
  9. cow
  10. daunt
  11. dismay
  12. appall
  13. horrify
  14. petrify
  15. fright
  16. spook
  17. unnerve
  18. shock
  19. dishearten
  20. abash
  21. dispirit
  22. throw into a fright
  23. raise apprehension
  24. deter
  25. threaten
  26. prey on the mind
  27. badger
  28. demoralize
  29. give cause for alarm
  30. put in fear
  31. give one a fright
  32. appal
  33. awe
  34. perturb
  35. disturb
  36. disquiet
  37. faze
  38. discomfort
  39. scarify
  40. harrow
  41. discomfit
  42. unman
  43. confound with dread
  44. strike terror into
  45. discourage
  46. frighten out of one's wits
  47. take-one-s-breath-away
  48. chill to the bone
  49. gorgonize
  50. make one's hair stand on end
  51. make one's blood run cold
  52. make one's flesh creep
  53. put one's heart in one's mouth
  54. give one a turn
  55. scare one stiff
  56. freeze the blood
  57. curdle the blood
  58. scare the daylights out of
  59. upset
  60. rattle
Antonyms:
  1. encourage
  2. hearten
  3. reassure
To drive off, because of alarm
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. scare-off
  2. scare away
  3. intimidate
  4. discourage
  5. repel
  6. stave off
  7. frighten away
  8. stampede
  9. put to flight
  10. deter
  11. browbeat
  12. bulldoze
Antonyms:
  1. calm
  2. fascinate
  3. gladden
  4. inveigle
  5. exhilarate
  6. reassure
  7. entice
  8. comfort
  9. soothe

Words Related to Frighten

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Frighten Sentence Examples

  • Maybe a little noise would frighten the animal away.

  • That's a thing to frighten me with!

  • For a moment she lay still, afraid any movement would frighten him away like a wild cat in the daylight.

  • But how he did frighten me...

  • Some cuckoos are singular for their habit of using the nests of smaller birds to lay their eggs in, so that the young may be reared by foster-parents; and it has been suggested that the object of the likeness exhibited to the hawk is to enable the cock cuckoo either to frighten the small birds away from their nests or to lure them in pursuit of him, while the hen bird quietly and without molestation disposes of her egg.

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