Another word for frighten
frighten
v.
To strike with fear
scare, alarm, terrify, daunt, dismay, cow, terrorize, shock, startle, dishearten, abash, dispirit, throw into a fright, raise apprehension, intimidate, deter, threaten, prey on the mind, badger, petrify, panic, demoralize, give cause for alarm, put in fear, give one a fright, horrify, appall, awe, perturb, disturb, disquiet, faze, discomfort, unnerve, harrow, unman, confound with dread, strike terror into, affright, spook*, frighten out of one's wits*, take one's breath away*, chill to the bone*, make one's hair stand on end*, make one's blood run cold*, make one's flesh creep*, put one's heart in one's mouth*, give one a turn*, scare one stiff*, freeze the blood*, curdle the blood*, scare the daylights out of*.
To drive off, because of alarm
scare off, scare away, intimidate, discourage, repel, stave off, frighten away, stampede, put to flight, deter, browbeat, bulldoze*.
frighten is the broadest of these terms and implies, usually, a sudden, temporary feeling of fear frightened by a mouse but sometimes, a state of continued dread she's frightened when she's alone; scare, often equivalent to frighten, often implies a fear that causes one to flee or to stop doing something I scared him from the room; alarm suggests a sudden fear or apprehension at the realization of an approaching danger alarmed by his warning; to terrify is to cause to feel an overwhelming, often paralyzing fear terrified at the thought of war; terrorize implies deliberate intention to terrify by threat or intimidation the gangsters terrorized the city
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Another word for frighten
To fill with fear:
affright, alarm, panic, scare, scarify2, startle, terrify, terrorize. (Archaic) fright. Idioms: make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, scare silly (or stiff), scare the daylights out of. See fear
MLA Style
"frighten." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 January 2019. <https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/frighten>.
APA Style
frighten. (n.d.). Retrieved January 14th, 2019, from https://thesaurus.yourdictionary.com/frighten
