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English to English noun
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sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events |  | Example: panic in the stock market
a war scare
a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
source: wordnet30
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a sudden attack of fear | | source: wordnet30
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Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. | | source: webster1913 verb
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cause fear in | | Example: The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
Ghosts could never affright her
source: wordnet30
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cause to lose courage | | Example: dashed by the refusal
source: wordnet30
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To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. | | source: webster1913
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