scare

noun

  1. 1

    a sudden attack of fear

  2. 2

    sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

    panic in the stock market

    a war scare

verb

  1. 1

    cause fear in

    The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me

    Ghosts could never affright her

  2. 2

    cause to lose courage

    dashed by the refusal

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