Thesaurus:frighten
English
Verb
Sense: to fill with fear
Synonyms
- alarm
- affright
- appall
- dismay
- fray (archaic)
- frighten
- grill (obsolete, Scotland)
- give someone the shits (idiomatic, vulgar)
- harrow
- horrify
- make someone's blood run cold (idiomatic)
- petrify
- scare
- scare straight
- scare the bejeebers out of (slang)
- scare the pants off of (idiomatic, slang)
- terrorize
- terrify
- spook