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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | upset, threaten |
| Synonyms: | alarm, appall, awe, bludgeon, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, coerce, cow, dismay, dragoon, fright, frighten, hector, horrify, intimidate, menace, oppress, petrify, scare, scare to death, shock, spook, startle, strike terror into, strong-arm, terrify |
| Antonyms: | assuage, calm, help, please |
| Main Entry: | coerce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | compel, press |
| Synonyms: | beset, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, concuss, constrain, cow, dragoon, drive, force, high pressure, hinder, impel, intimidate, lean on, make, make an offer they can't refuse, menace, oblige, pressurize, push, put the squeeze on, repress, restrict, shotgun, strong-arm, suppress, terrorize, threaten, twist one's arm, urge |
| Antonyms: | leave alone |
| Main Entry: | cow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | browbeat, intimidate |
| Synonyms: | abash, appall, awe, bludgeon, bluster, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, daunt, discomfit, disconcert, dishearten, dismay, dragoon, embarrass, enforce, faze, frighten, hector, lean on, overawe, push around, rattle, scare, showboat, strong-arm, subdue, terrorize, turn on the heat, unnerve, walk heavy |
| Antonyms: | encourage, hearten, inspirit |
| Main Entry: | dismay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disappoint, fill with consternation |
| Synonyms: | abash, affright, agitate, alarm, appall, bewilder, bother, chill, confound, daunt, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, disillusion, dispirit, disquiet, distress, disturb, dumbfound, embarrass, faze, flummox, fluster, foul up, frighten, get to, horrify, louse up, mess up*, muck up, mystify, nonplus, paralyze, perplex, put off, puzzle, rattle, scare, screw up, shake, snafu, take aback, terrify, terrorize, throw, throw into a tizzy, unhinge, unnerve, upset |
| Antonyms: | assure, encourage, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shock, scare |
| Synonyms: | affright, agitate, alarm, appall, astound, awe, browbeat, bulldoze, chill, chill to the bone, cow, curdle the blood, daunt, demoralize, deter, disburb, discomfort, disconcert, discourage, dishearten, dismay, disquiet, faze, horrify, intimidate, make blood run cold, make teeth chatter, panic, perturb, petrify, repel, scare away, scare off, scare to death, spook, startle, stiff, strike terror into, terrify, terrorize, unhinge, unnerve |
| Antonyms: | calm, comfort, exhilarate, gladden |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
| Synonyms: | agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | horrify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scare |
| Synonyms: | affright, alarm, appall, chill off, consternate, daunt, disgust, dismay, frighten, intimidate, outrage, petrify, scare to death, shake, shock, sicken, terrify, terrorize |
| Antonyms: | delight, make happy, please |
| Main Entry: | intimidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frighten, threaten |
| Synonyms: | alarm, appall, awe, badger, bait, bludgeon, bluster, bowl over, browbeat, buffalo, bulldoze, bully, chill, coerce, compel, constrain, cow*, daunt, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, disquiet, dragoon, enforce, force, hound, lean on, oblige, overawe, push around, ride*, ruffle, scare, showboat, spook, strong-arm, subdue, terrify, terrorize, twist someone's arm |
| Antonyms: | assist, encourage, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | menace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, frighten |
| Synonyms: | alarm, bad-eye, browbeat, bully, chill, compromise, endanger, hazard, impend, imperil, intimidate, jeopardize, lean on, loom, lower, overhang, peril, portend, push around, put heat on, risk, scare, scare hell out of, spook, terrorize, threaten, torment, whip around |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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