SCARE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SCARE?

Need another word that means the same as “scare”? Find 22 synonyms and 30 related words for “scare” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Scare” are: affright, fright, frighten, dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off, make afraid, make fearful, make nervous, panic, throw into a panic, panic attack, shock, start, turn, jump

Scare as a Noun

Definitions of "Scare" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scare” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
• A situation characterized by a sudden and typically widespread sense of alarm or anxiety about something.
• A sudden attack of fright.
• A sudden attack of fear.

Synonyms of "Scare" as a noun (7 Words)

fright	A sudden intense feeling of fear. I jumped up in fright.
jump	An act of jumping from a surface by pushing upwards with one s legs and feet. He advanced in a series of jumps.
panic	A state of widespread financial alarm provoking hasty action. Panic selling.
panic attack	An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
shock	(pathology) bodily collapse or near collapse caused by inadequate oxygen delivery to the cells; characterized by reduced cardiac output and rapid heartbeat and circulatory insufficiency and pallor. Corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks.
start	A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game. The woman gave a nervous start.
turn	A place where a road meets or branches off another a turning. Why don t you take a turn around the garden.

Usage Examples of "Scare" as a noun

• Recent food scares have made the public rightly sensitive to new, apparently untested technologies.
• The event was postponed earlier this year due to the foot-and-mouth scare.
• A war scare.
• She has been given the all-clear after a breast cancer scare.
• Gosh, that gave me a scare!
• A bomb scare led them to evacuate the building.

Scare as a Verb

Definitions of "Scare" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scare” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Become scared.
• Cause to lose courage.
• Cause fear in.
• Cause great fear or nervousness in; frighten.

Synonyms of "Scare" as a verb (15 Words)

affright	Frighten (someone. Ghosts could never affright her.
dash	Run or move very quickly or hastily. Dashed ambitions and hopes.
daunt	Cause to lose courage. Some people are daunted by technology.
fright	Frighten. Ghosts could never affright her.
frighten	Drive out by frightening. Farmers are being frightened into scaling down their breeding plans.
frighten away	Drive out by frightening.
frighten off	Cause fear in.
make afraid	Have a bowel movement.
make fearful	Perform or carry out.
make nervous	Achieve a point or goal.
pall	Cover with a pall. The course palled on her.
panic	Drive someone through panic into hasty action. The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners.
scare away	Cause to lose courage.
scare off	Cause to lose courage.
throw into a panic	Cause to be confused emotionally.

Usage Examples of "Scare" as a verb

• The rapid questions were designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
• I was scared stiff.
• I don't think I scare easily.

Associations of "Scare" (30 Words)

alarm	Be fitted or protected with an alarm. They disabled the alarm and used a glass cutter to get in.
alarming	Worrying or disturbing. Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate.
appall	Strike with disgust or revulsion.
browbeat	Be bossy towards. A witness is being browbeaten under cross examination.
chilling	Horrifying or frightening. A chilling account of the prisoners fate.
daunt	Make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive. Some people are daunted by technology.
discourage	Deprive of courage or hope take away hope from cause to feel discouraged. We should discourage this practice among our youth.
dishearten	Cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence. The farmer was disheartened by the damage to his crops.
dread	Greatly feared dreadful. A dreadful storm.
faze	Disturb or disconcert (someone. She was not fazed by his show of anger.
fear	Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement. I shall buy her book though not I fear the hardback version.
fearfulness	The trait of being afraid.
fearsome	Causing fear or dread or terror. The cat mewed displaying a fearsome set of teeth.
formidable	Inspiring fear- G.H.Johnston. The challenge was formidable.
fright	Frighten. Ghosts could never affright her.
frighten	Drive out by frightening. The savagery of his thoughts frightened him.
frightening	Making someone afraid or anxious; terrifying. A frightening experience.
gaze	A steady intent look. Offices screened from the public gaze.
horrific	Causing fear or dread or terror. Horrific injuries.
horror	Something that inspires horror something horrible. Children screamed in horror.
intimidate	Make timid or fearful. The forts are designed to intimidate the nationalist population.
panic	Drive someone through panic into hasty action. The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners.
petrify	Change into stone. Slogans petrify our thinking.
phobia	An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. Phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias.
scared	Made afraid. I was scared that people were going to take pictures of me.
scary	Uncannily striking or surprising. A scary movie.
startle	To stimulate to action. A sudden sound in the doorway startled her.
terrify	Cause to feel extreme fear. He is terrified of spiders.
terror	Terrorism. He used terror to make them confess.
unnerve	Make (someone) lose courage or confidence. The journey over the bridge had unnerved me.