Synonyms for scare
skɛərscare

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1. scarenoun

   Synonyms:
   fright, frighten, terrify

2. scarenoun

   To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

   Did that scare you when I said Boo!?

   Synonyms:
   fright, frighten, terrify

3. scarenoun

   A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

   JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.

   Synonyms:
   fright

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1. scare

   One is frightened by a cause of fear addressed directly and suddenly to the senses; he is intimidated by an apprehension of contingent consequences dependent on some act of his own to be done or forborne; the means of intimidation may act through the senses, or may appeal only to the intellect or the sensibilities. The sudden rush of an armed madman may frighten; the quiet leveling of a highwayman's pistol intimidates. A savage beast is intimidated by the keeper's whip. Employers may intimidate their employees from voting contrary to their will by threat of discharge; a mother may be intimidated through fear for her child. To browbeat or cow is to bring into a state of submissive fear; to daunt is to give pause or check to a violent, threatening, or even a brave spirit. To scare is to cause sudden, unnerving fear; to terrify is to awaken fear that is overwhelming. Compare ALARM.

   Synonyms:
   affright, alarm, appal, browbeat, cow, daunt, dismay, frighten, intimidate, terrify

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1. scare

   Synonyms:
   terrify, affright, intimidate, frighten, deter, dismay, daunt

   Antonyms:
   reassure, encourage, entice, allure

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1. panic, scarenoun

   sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

   "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

   Synonyms:
   terror, panic attack, affright, panic

2. scare, panic attackverb

   a sudden attack of fear

   Synonyms:
   panic attack, panic

3. frighten, fright, scare, affrightverb

   cause fear in

   "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"

   Synonyms:
   pall, scare off, daunt, affright, frighten away, scare away, fright, frighten, frighten off, dash

4. daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scareverb

   cause to lose courage

   "dashed by the refusal"

   Synonyms:
   weary, dull, shoot, scoot, pall, cloy, flash, fatigue, fright, affright, scare off, frighten, tire, frighten away, scud, jade, die, become flat, scare away, crash, daunt, frighten off, dart, dash, smash

Matched Categories

1. • Anxiety
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1. scareverb

   Synonyms:
   frighten, affright, FRIGHT, intimidate, daunt, appall, terrify, make afraid, put in fear

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1. scarenoun

   Synonyms:
   fright, alarm, terror, panic, consternation

2. scareverb

   Synonyms:
   frighten, intimidate, terrify, daunt, cow, appall, startle, affright, alarm, browbeat, dismay, terrorize, overawe

   Antonyms:
   reassure

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1. List of paraphrases for "scare":

   frighten, startle, spook, afraid, scared, panic, fear, alarmist, intimidate, fright

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1. Cathrine Ertmann:

   But in all of this I also saw a peace and beauty, sometimes the scare is in the brief look at something. Like when you watch a horror movie, you only see a glimpse of the ghost, murderer or monster and your imagination works all the fright up for you. I think I felt I need to see everything to make it 'normal' and undramatic. And I think it works the same way with our relation to death in general.

2. Professor Jacobson:

   This is an attempt not just to scare Black Law Students Association away from my course, but to scare Black Law Students Association away from speaking Black Law Students Association minds, and to create a faculty and student purity test, this isnt activism, its anti-intellectualism. I dont think it will work, and there will be a backlash.

3. Dawn Davis:

   Some of the people I talked to were people of color who felt that they were listened to, that they were respected, that there's obviously work to be done, but those challenges didn't scare me away from this opportunity. Honestly, most American companies of a certain size and of a certain length of existence have this work to do.

4. Ronald Primas:

   You have to understand the psyche of the time. Everyone was on high alert, it was a year post 9/11, a year after the anthrax scare, they were in top security mode. A nurse was screaming,' Get her into a room. She's contagious !' There was hysteria.

5. Joe Biden:

   Senate Democrats can't let this happen, guys. And it's going to be hard. Because inflation is going to scare the living hell out of everybody.