SCARE

• (noun) a sudden attack of fear

  synonyms : panic attack

• (noun) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

  "panic in the stock market", "a war scare", "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"

  synonyms : panic

• (verb) cause fear in

  "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me", "Ghosts could never affright her"

  synonyms : affright , fright , frighten

• (verb) cause to lose courage

  "dashed by the refusal"

  synonyms : dash , daunt , frighten away , frighten off , pall , scare away , scare off

  We should never let any failure daunt our courage. -added by editor1

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