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espantar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • frighten verb To make someone feel afraid or alarmed; to scare.
  • panic noun A sudden overwhelming feeling of fear that makes it hard to think clearly.
  • scare noun A sudden fright, or an event that causes widespread alarm.
  • startle verb To give someone a sudden shock or fright, usually without real danger.

Senses

espantar is used for these senses in English:

  • frighten (transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
  • panic To cause (someone) to feel panic; also, to frighten (someone) into acting hastily.
  • scare (intransitive) (To be able) to be scared.
  • startle (transitive) To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise.

frighten — full definition

  1. verb To make someone feel afraid or alarmed; to scare.
  2. verb To become afraid.

panic — full definition

  1. noun A sudden overwhelming feeling of fear that makes it hard to think clearly.
  2. verb To be overcome with sudden fear, or to cause someone to feel that way.
  3. verb Of a computer, to crash suddenly and stop functioning.

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