scare off

Questions about scare off

What does scare off mean?

scare off means "cause to lose courage".

What is another word for scare off?

Close synonyms include daunt, dash, pall, frighten off, scare away. 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 off a common word?

scare off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.