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Textual thesaurus for "scare"

(noun) panic attack

a sudden attack of fear


(noun) panic

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


(verb) affright, fright, frighten

cause fear in

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


(verb) dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare away, scare off, pall

cause to lose courage

dashed by the refusal