| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A signal that warns of imminent danger: alarum, alert, tocsin, warning. See WARN. 2. Great agitation and anxiety caused by the expectation or the realization of danger: affright, apprehension, dread, fear, fearfulness, fright, funk, horror, panic, terror, trepidation. Slang : cold feet. Idioms: fear and trembling. See FEAR. | | VERB: | 1. To fill with fear: affright, frighten, panic, 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. 2. To notify (someone) of imminent danger or risk: admonish, alert, caution, forewarn, warn. See WARN.
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