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Another word for scare

scare Synonyms

scare

n.

fright, terror, alarm; see fear 1.

scare Synonyms

scare

v.

panic, terrify, alarm; see frighten 1. See syn. study at frighten.

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Another word for scare

verb

To fill with fear:

affright, alarm, frighten, panic, 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

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He didn't scare her the way Jonny did, and she wasn't certain why, beyond the obvious that he healed her.
There's nothing that's going to scare you.
They don't scare us much.
Don't pay any attention to him, Fritz, he's just tryin' to scare us.
It wasn't her intent to scare them.

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