scare away

1. 1.

   cause to lose courage

   “dashed by the refusal”

   Synonymsdauntdashscare offpallfrighten offfrighten awayscare

   Broaderintimidate

Questions about scare away

What does scare away mean?

scare away means "cause to lose courage".

What is another word for scare 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 scare away a common word?

scare 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.