Main entry: scare, panic attack
Definition: a sudden attack of fear
Definition: 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
Main entry: affright, fright, frighten, scare
Definition: cause fear in
Usage: The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me; Ghosts could never affright her
Main entry: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off, pall
Definition: cause to lose courage
Usage: dashed by the refusal