scaring

When detectives got a tip that another man had confessed to the killing, the petition says, they failed to seriously investigate, instead threatening the tipster with perjury charges and scaring him into leaving town.

In the case of controlled fear experiences, scaring yourself is a pivotal technique to help you survive and adapt in a frightening world.

The dinoflagellates known as Lingulodinium polyedra use bioluminescence to avoid predators by either scaring off hungry sea creatures or calling attention to their location, which draws the predators’ predators, experts have said.

A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant in south London because staff said he was "scaring the customers".

As Nasrallah spoke, Israeli warplanes caused sonic booms over Beirut, scaring an already-exhausted population, and others struck targets in southern Lebanon.