noun
- Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
- usage: "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
- synonyms: panic
- A sudden attack of fear.
- synonyms: panic attack
verb
- Cause fear in.
- usage: "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
- Cause to lose courage.
- usage: "dashed by the refusal"
- synonyms: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away
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