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scare fright terrify fray affright boo affray bully cow funk intimidate scarecrow startle dismay shoo scarify bluff bo alarm horrify frightening bogeyman bugbear flay fear gally make one's blood curdle terrorize frightened flush lowbell gliff fley petrify coward browbeat bugaboo goon mask afear daunt affrighten sob affear stare down blood strike fear into the hearts of monster gunplay hare scare the bejesus out of psych out psych daw chill fleg effray put the fear of God into (someone)
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scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of sb daunting frighten to death frighten the life out of forbidding timorous witless frighten/scare the life out of scare/frighten the life out of sb scare the (living) daylights out of someone put the fear of God into you have (or hold) no terrors for someone chill sb to the bone/marrow scare someone to death war cry terrorism cyberbully make your blood curdle booger beat, bore, scare, etc. the pants off sb frightener menacing dread rock frighten/scare/beat/kick the hell out of someone flight faze put (or have) the wind up horrified terrifying horrifying harrow horror out of one's wits the bejesus rawhead hypnotize gast swagger shake up -en horror story Bloody Bones booby trap disturb smooth indomitable a (warning) shot across the bows the pants off battle cry heavy rough sb up terror-bombing scare tactics lurk bother overawe panic gunfight shake bully boy gently poison-pen letter the hell out of scat Halloween cyberstalking flasher horror film terror cyberbullying death's head goonda flash drive draw up gotcha clack ghost train deter war rouse raw-head intimidation intimidated ease alarming terrified aghast fazed deadline

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Words For "frighten"

As you've probably noticed, words for "frighten" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "frighten" are: scare, fright, terrify, fray, and affright. There are 144 other words that are related to or similar to frighten listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "frighten" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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