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Verb

To frighten or cause fear

To harass, annoy, or cause trouble to (someone)

To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright

A feeling of fright

Slight panic or anxiety

(narratology) A technique of having something occur suddenly to frighten the audience

Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is

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To frighten or cause fear

appall^US

appal^UK

terrorise^UK

terrorize^US

chill someone's blood

fill with fear

frighten someone out of their wits

frighten the life out of

frighten the living daylights out of

frighten to death

give a turn

give someone a fright

give someone goose pimples

give someone the heebie-jeebies

make someone jump out of their skin

make someone's blood run cold

make someone's hair curl

make someone's hair stand on end

make someone shake in their shoes

put the fear of God into

put the wind up

scare someone out of their wits

scare stiff

scare the bejesus out of

scare the hell out of

scare the life out of

scare the living daylights out of

scare the pants off

scare to death

scare witless

send into a cold sweat

strike terror into

throw into a blue funk

demoralize^US

demoralise^UK

tyrannize^US

make one's hair stand on end

paralyse^UK

paralyze^US

tyrannise^UK

pressurize^US

make one's blood run cold

pressurise^UK

make one's flesh creep

victimize^US

frighten out of your wits

scare silly

victimise^UK

push about

scare the pants off of

ride roughshod over

mess with someone's head

do someone's head in

knock for a loop

scare the daylights out of

freak

frighten off

become horror-stricken

send chills down the spine of

coerce

blind someone with something

pain

rouse

take your breath away

baffle

destabilize^US

unbalance

make someone jump out of his skin

destabilise^UK

traumatize^US

traumatise^UK

pull the rug from under

put off one's stroke

pull the rug out from under

cause someone to lose their composure

put out

put out of countenance

rattle one's cage

put someone off their stride

scare someone half to death

use strong-arm tactics on

tantalise^UK

tantalize^US

brutalize^US

brutalise^UK

mishandle

gnaw at

dampen the spirits of

weigh heavily on one's mind

give a hard time

cause to lose heart

dampen someone's hopes

take the wind out of your sails

fill with consternation

scandalize^US

scandalise^UK

put someone off their stroke

knock the stuffing out of

agonize^US

agonise^UK

give someone the blues

tick off

set someone back on their heels

undermine

devitalize

make sad

make someone scratch their head

stop someone in their tracks

hurt somebody's feelings

antagonize^US

antagonise^UK

cause to be at a stand

bring tears to your eyes

knock out

make one's heart bleed

knock the wind out of

undermine one's confidence

raise someone's eyebrows

shake out of your complacency

hit like ton of bricks

balk^US

baulk^UK

sap the confidence of

shatter the illusions of

harsh someone's mellow

make someone's heart bleed

keep under

make desolate

hang over

break someone's spirit

break someone's heart

tread on someone's toes

cause offense

be an affront to

be offensive

put someone's nose out of joint

give someone the hump

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“I don't get frightened easily, but what does scare me is the unpredictability of our current leader.”

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To harass, annoy, or cause trouble to (someone)

tantalise^UK

tantalize^US

breathe down someone's neck

carp at

make somebody's hackles rise

get on someone's case

drive round the twist

get under your skin

give someone the hump

brutalize^US

victimize^US

antagonize^US

agonize^US

brutalise^UK

victimise^UK

antagonise^UK

agonise^UK

give someone the works

pressurize^US

pressurise^UK

terrorize^US

bring pressure to bear on

terrorise^UK

ruffle one's feathers

be on the back of

rattle someone's cage

get up someone's nose

put someone's nose out of joint

drive you up the wall

tyrannize^US

make things hot for someone

get on someone's back

make it hot for someone

dishonor^US

dishonour^UK

be a pain in the neck

rankle with

mix up

be a thorn in someone's side

tyrannise^UK

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To give someone a feeling of uneasiness or mild fright

give someone the creeps

make someone's blood run cold

make someone want to throw up

give someone the heebie-jeebies

make your gorge rise

terrorize^US

terrorise^UK

make someone's skin crawl

make someone feel sick

shock

be offensive to

give you the creeps

cause to feel nauseous

make someone's flesh creep

be extremely distasteful to

make one's flesh creep

make someone's stomach rise

appal^UK

appall^US

make someone feel nauseous

Noun

A feeling of fright

butterflies in the stomach

fight-or-flight reaction

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“That movie, The Sixth Sense, gave me an old-fashioned scare.”

Noun

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Slight panic or anxiety

“When he broke out in rashes, it gave his mother a measles scare.”

Noun

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(narratology) A technique of having something occur suddenly to frighten the audience

startle reflex trigger

startle response trigger

the fright of one's life

Noun

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Any imagined fear or threat, or a fear presumed larger than it really is

specter^US

spectre^UK

chimera^US

chimaera^UK

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