spaventare — 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
spaventare is used for these senses in English:
- freak out (informal, transitive) To scare or unnerve someone.
- 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
- verb To make someone feel afraid or alarmed; to scare.
- verb To become afraid.
panic — full definition
- noun A sudden overwhelming feeling of fear that makes it hard to think clearly.
- verb To be overcome with sudden fear, or to cause someone to feel that way.
- verb Of a computer, to crash suddenly and stop functioning.