skrämma — meaning in English

English meaning

• appall verb To shock or horrify someone deeply.
• faze verb To disturb, unsettle, or worry someone (usually used in the negative, "not fazed").
• frighten verb To make someone feel afraid or alarmed; to scare.
• intimidate verb To frighten or pressure someone, often through threats, so they do what you want.
• rattle verb To make a rapid series of short, sharp knocking sounds by shaking or being shaken.
• scare noun A sudden fright, or an event that causes widespread alarm.
• spook noun A ghost or supernatural apparition.

Senses

skrämma is used for these senses in English:

• appall (intransitive, obsolete) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.
• faze (transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]
• frighten (transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
• intimidate (transitive) To make timid or afraid; to cause to feel fear or nervousness; to deter, especially by threats of violence.
• rattle (transitive, figurative, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
• scare (intransitive) (To be able) to be scared.
• spook (transitive) To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).

appall — full definition

1. verb To shock or horrify someone deeply.
2. verb (archaic) To turn pale, or to make something pale.
3. verb (archaic) To make something weaker.
4. verb (archaic) To become weak or faint, or to lose courage.

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