| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, alarm, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, horror, terror, trepidation. Slang : cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See FEAR. 2. Slang. Something or someone uproariously funny or absurd: absurdity. Informal : hoot, joke, laugh, scream. Slang : gas, howl, riot. Idioms: a laugh a minute. See LAUGHTER. | | VERB: | To fill with fear: affright, alarm, frighten, scare, scarify2, startle, terrify, terrorize. Archaic : fright. Idioms: make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, scare silly (or stiff) , scare the daylights out of. See FEAR.
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