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FRIGHTEN AWAY

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• FRIGHTEN AWAY (verb)
The verb FRIGHTEN AWAY has 1 sense:

1. cause to lose courage

Familiarity information: FRIGHTEN AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

• FRIGHTEN AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Cause to lose courage

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

daunt; frighten away; frighten off; scare away; scare off; pall; scare; dash

Context example:

dashed by the refusal

Hypernyms (to "frighten away" is one way to...):

intimidate; restrain (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot frighten away Sue
The bad news will frighten away him

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(Afghanistan proverb)
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(Arabic proverb)
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