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

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Associations of "Scaring" (30 Words)

alarm	An alarm clock. The boat tilted and the boatmen cried out in alarm.
alarming	Worrying or disturbing. Our countryside is disappearing at an alarming rate.
appall	Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
browbeat	Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words. 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. Tedious regulations could discourage investors.
dishearten	Cause (someone) to lose determination or confidence. The farmer was disheartened by the damage to his crops.
dread	Dreadlocks. The man whom Henry dreaded as the future champion of English freedom.
faze	Disturb or disconcert (someone. She was not fazed by his show of anger.
fear	Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of. We should not fear the Communists.
fearfulness	An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight.
fearsome	Causing fear or dread or terror. The cat mewed displaying a fearsome set of teeth.
formidable	Inspiring fear. A formidable opponent.
fright	Frighten. I got the fright of my life seeing her in the hotel.
frighten	Drive out by frightening. Farmers are being frightened into scaling down their breeding plans.
frightening	Causing fear or dread or terror. A frightening experience.
gaze	A long fixed look. He fixed his paternal gaze on me.
horrific	Causing horror. Horrific injuries.
horror	Something that inspires horror something horrible. That little horror Zach was around.
intimidate	To compel or deter by or as if by threats. Her boss intimidates her.
panic	Feel or cause to feel panic. Panic selling.
petrify	Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern. Slogans petrify our thinking.
phobia	An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something. She suffered from a phobia about birds.
scared	Fearful; frightened. We re both scared of spiders.
scary	Uncannily striking or surprising. It was scary the way they bonded with each other.
startle	Cause to feel sudden shock or alarm. A sudden sound in the doorway startled her.
terrify	Fill with terror; frighten greatly. He is terrified of spiders.
terror	Terrorism. A terror suspect.
unnerve	Make (someone) lose courage or confidence. The journey over the bridge had unnerved me.