nnoun.actthe act of inspiring with fearTopic:act of terrorismterrorismterrorist act
Synset:terrorisation terrorization
Derivationally Related Form:frightenterroriseterrorize
Hypernyms:bullying intimidation
Inherited Hypernyms:terrorizationbullyingaggressionbehavioractivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
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)
adj satadj.allcausing fear or dread or terrorSynset:awful dire direful dread dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome horrendous horrific terrible
Examples:- the awful war
- an awful risk
- dire news
- a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked
- the dread presence of the headmaster
- polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was
- a dreadful storm
- a fearful howling
- horrendous explosions shook the city
- a terrible curse
Antonyms:unalarming
Derivationally Related Form:terriblenessdreadawfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:awful
Similar to:alarming