scare

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. 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
• Syn:
panic
• Derivationally related forms:
scarey, panic (for: panic)
• Hypernyms:
anxiety, anxiousness
• Hyponyms:
red scare
2. a sudden attack of fear
• Syn:
panic attack
• Derivationally related forms:
scarey
• Hypernyms:
fear, fearfulness, fright

II - verb

1. cause fear in (Freq. 4)
- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
• Syn:
frighten, fright, affright
• See Also:
frighten off (for: frighten), frighten away (for: frighten)
• Derivationally related forms:
affright (for: affright), scarer, fright (for: fright), frightening (for: frighten)
• Hypernyms:
stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir
• Hyponyms:
bluff, awe, terrify, terrorize, terrorise,
intimidate, dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify,
consternate, spook
• Cause:
fear, dread
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- The bad news will scare him
- Sam cannot scare Sue
2. cause to lose courage (Freq. 2)
- dashed by the refusal
• Syn:
daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off,
scare away, frighten away
• Derivationally related forms:
pall (for: pall)
• Hypernyms:
intimidate, restrain
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- The performance is likely to scare Sue

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  panic attack, panic, daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, frighten, fright, affright