vverb.emotioncause fear inSynset:affright fright frighten scare
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 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)
vverb.contactmark with a scarSynset:mark pit pock scar
Examples:- The skin disease scarred his face permanently
Derivationally Related Form:pitpittingmarkscarpock
Hypernyms:blemish deface disfigure
Inherited Hypernyms:scardefacemardamagechange
Direct Hyponyms:cicatrisecicatrizepockmark
Entailment:incise
Full Troponyms:cicatrizepockmark
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s something
adj satadj.allmade afraidSynset:frightened
Examples:- the frightened child cowered in the corner
- too shocked and scared to move
Antonyms:unafraid
Inherited Hypernyms:frightened
Similar to:afraid