Thesaurus:frighten
English
Verb
Sense: to fill with fear
Synonyms
- alarm
- affright
- appall
- dismay
- fray (archaic)
- frighten
- grill (obsolete, Scotland)
- give someone the shits (idiomatic, vulgar)
- harrow
- horrify
- make someone's blood run cold (idiomatic)
- mortify
- petrify
- scare
- scare straight
- scare the bejeebers out of (slang)
- scare the hell out of (idiomatic, slang)
- scare the pants off of (idiomatic, slang)
- scare the shit out of (idiomatic, slang)
- terrorize
- terrify
- spook
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See also
- Thesaurus:afraid
- Thesaurus:coward
- Thesaurus:disheartening
- Thesaurus:fear
- Thesaurus:nervous
- Thesaurus:asustar (Spanish)