frighten away

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verb

cause to lose courage (Freq. 1)
- dashed by the refusal
• Syn:
daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off,
scare away, scare
• Derivationally related forms:
scare (for: scare), pall (for: pall)
• Hypernyms:
intimidate, restrain
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot frighten away Sue
- The bad news will frighten away him