other words for frighten
- agitate
- alarm
- appall
- astound
- awe
- daunt
- demoralize
- deter
- disconcert
- discourage
- dishearten
- dismay
- faze
- horrify
- intimidate
- perturb
- petrify
- startle
- terrify
- terrorize
- unnerve
- affright
- browbeat
- bulldoze
- chill
- cow
- disquiet
- panic
- repel
- spook
- unhinge
- chill to the bone
- curdle the blood
- disburb
- discomfort
- make blood run cold
- make teeth chatter
- scare away
- scare off
- scare to death
- stiff
- strike terror into
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The work was hard, and the weather cold; but these did not frighten me.
“It will frighten the rest, who will soon come to terms, and agree to pay any tribute I may demand,” observed the rajah.
Of course, it was to frighten me; all of the girls told me not to leave it there.
He might walk round in his square coat, and frighten the old 'un a little.'
If I do not frighten these companions of the beautiful girl, they may eat me.
They foreclose without mercy, but that does not frighten their old patrons, who have the perennial optimism of the country.
Some young men once determined to frighten the famous naturalist Cuvier.
It ended in his driving me to my last resource—I made an attempt to frighten him.
But he did not want to frighten Mary Nestor, so he fixed the control while gliding along, and made light of it.
"I frighten you," he said, in a low guttural voice, as he smiled.
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