FRIGHTEN AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frighten away mean? 

• FRIGHTEN AWAY (verb)
  The verb FRIGHTEN AWAY has 1 sense:

1. cause to lose courage

  Familiarity information: FRIGHTEN AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIGHTEN AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to lose courage

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

dash; daunt; frighten away; frighten off; pall; scare; scare away; scare off

Context example:

dashed by the refusal

Hypernyms (to "frighten away" is one way to...):

intimidate (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

Sam cannot frighten away Sue
The bad news will frighten away him

 Context examples 

To compose a letter which might at once do justice to her sentiments and her situation, convey gratitude without servile regret, be guarded without coldness, and honest without resentment—a letter which Eleanor might not be pained by the perusal of—and, above all, which she might not blush herself, if Henry should chance to see, was an undertaking to frighten away all her powers of performance; and, after long thought and much perplexity, to be very brief was all that she could determine on with any confidence of safety.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)