scare

Noun

• a sudden attack of fear

• sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
  • panic in the stock market
    
  • a war scare
    
  • a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
    

Verb

• cause to lose courage
  • dashed by the refusal
    

• cause fear in
  • The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
    
  • Ghosts could never affright her
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  panic attack , panic , daunt , dash , scare off , pall , frighten off , scare away , frighten away , frighten , fright , affright