nnoun.feelingan overwhelming feeling of fear and anxietySynset:panic terror
Derivationally Related Form:terrorizeterrifyterrorisepanickypanicaffrightterrorist
Hypernyms:fear fearfulness fright
Inherited Hypernyms:panicfearemotionfeelingstateattributeabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:swivet
vverb.emotioncause fear inSynset: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)