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scourge reach touch try call up (someone) service be on sb's tail chauffeur play a trick on (someone) string sb up sustain swing for sb tattle converse take sb's life throw the book at sb take mercy on take (someone) by surprise challenge gild tasteless toughen someone up pimp slosh tyrannize scandalize gilt work due concuss have a word benefit bemuse get on someone's case give (someone) gyp eliminate divert dialogue get on sb's wick give sb the shits gall go go at sb hit/touch a (raw) nerve ice interpose intoxicate bow down to someone jump to sb's defence advance dragoon share ring back beleaguer call up bump into bring advise blame arouse blow up fly at strip take/bring/hold someone to task quench there piss sb off play (sb) up polish sb off put/get sb's back up perturb slain lash rub sb out savage set about sb set on/upon sb set someone's pulse racing prod smooch spur someone on take a shine to sb become apprehend make someone's acquaintance knock sb off infectious cross-question cuff back give/lend sb a helping hand do in come to someone's knowledge finish off annoy get someone wrong give sb a shout knock off inquire of murder mix it (up) with someone get under sb's skin steady tan sb's hide strike/touch a chord in/with throw someone for a loop tick off someone to someone's face wait on someone walk dub brand melancholiac remove sic victimize swindle duff shirtfront castigate dishonest ring up assistance snub send someone off with a flea in their ear ream trouble burn up someone capture someone's attention hair do well by (someone) give someone a nod give (someone) a wink do someone in put something into someone's head deprave demolish duff sb up attract (someone’s) attention put someone in mind of sadden take out open doors donder burn sb up bundle up pillory chew someone out tutor gave fatigue fellate make after fox instruct let fly commend do sb in do sb over lead someone up the aisle get (someone) good disposal exchange words fault fool get on sb's tits frighteners lean on lay a hand on sb let sb know give sb a buzz mess sb about/around praise pulverize rehire slew sit chiv send someone down start take (or catch) someone's fancy tune jump to someone's defense revile beat up on sb send sb to eternity see eye to eye (with someone) shadow misuse lamp slag sb off bullyrag cap conceive squire stand over give someone a ring daw discommode tail soft on stop by address humorize skunk meet pin overfall roast trample unknowing give someone their due be of service (to sb) blow out blow someone/something out of the water ape draw blood give someone a break enrich fog have a go fetch someone a blow/slap cheese sb off convince name challenger liberty transmogrify threaten ostracism sheathe get/put someone’s back up give someone a bell give someone a buzz jump on lick clump pique point out darken put away beat up on someone christen come up bump off attack re-elect buzz second-guess bump into someone tick off gilding given do away with sb leave someone cold get the wrong idea give someone the nod gladden the heart beggar embolden encounter impoverish get a rise out of harm a hair on sb's head ax loan lead sb up the garden path get/lay/put your hands on sb interact make (sb's) hackles rise nark odds rencounter peeve shiv raise your hand to/against sb pop sb off spat put someone out to pasture query score juke shake someone up mystify predecease snuff sb out sock pease puzzle remercy ring rained blows take (someone) to task demand hedonist skin (someone) alive tee sb off touch/strike/hit a (raw) nerve tie sb (up) in knots bunco blag farewell can baffle have a go at someone own put one over on sb start on soak rough up someone rub someone the wrong way seductive ring up someone madden leave (someone) in peace make one's acquaintance renominate stupefy be down on sb sweep someone off their feet take someone’s life rouse rub out rap bushwhack call sb up caution bump sb off thrust call in on enthuse help get on someone's wick gladden someone's heart knock-down drop by/in

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Words For "scare someone to death"

As you've probably noticed, words for "scare someone to death" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "scare someone to death" are: mortal, deadly, deathly, scare, and dying. There are 994 other words that are related to or similar to scare someone to death listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "scare someone to death" 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).

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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.).

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