Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb frighten_away

1 sense of frighten away

Sense 1
daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare -- (cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal")
       => intimidate, restrain -- (to compel or deter by or as if by threats)