nnoun.statesudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated eventsSynset:panic
Examples:- panic in the stock market
- a war scare
- a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
Derivationally Related Form:panicscaryscare
Hypernyms:anxiety anxiousness
Inherited Hypernyms:panicanxietypsychological stateconditionstateattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:red scare
nnoun.feelinga sudden attack of fearSynset:panic attack
Derivationally Related Form:scarescary
Hypernyms:fear fearfulness fright
Inherited Hypernyms:scarefearemotionfeelingstateattributeabstractionentity
vverb.emotioncause fear inSynset:affright fright frighten
Examples:- The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
- Ghosts could never affright her
Derivationally Related Form:frightaffrightscarerfrighteningscare
Hypernyms:excite shake shake up stimulate stir
Inherited Hypernyms:frightenstimulatearousemake
Direct Hyponyms:alarmappalappallawebluffconsternatedismayhorrifyintimidatespookterrifyterroriseterrorize
Causes:dread fear
Full Troponyms:awebluffbuffaloconsternatedismayhold overintimidateoverawepanicshockspookstrong-armterrifytyrannize
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The bad news will --- him (apply to: frighten, affright, fright, scare) | Sam cannot --- Sue (apply to: scare)
vverb.emotioncause to lose courageSynset:dash daunt frighten away frighten off pall scare away scare off
Derivationally Related Form:scarepall
Hypernyms:intimidate
Inherited Hypernyms:dauntintimidatediscourage
Sentence Frame:Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: scare, daunt) | The bad news will --- him (apply to: frighten away, scare off, frighten off) | Sam cannot --- Sue (apply to: scare away, frighten away, frighten off)