frighten away

Questions about frighten away

What does frighten away mean?

frighten away means "cause to lose courage".

What is another word for frighten away?

Close synonyms include daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frighten away a common word?

frighten away is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.