to make someone feel so frightened or worried that they do not do something that they had planned to do
to make someone so frightened that they run away
The attacker was scared away when the woman started to scream.
The city’s high murder rate has scared away tourists.
Under Wulfgar's guidance the crops had been tended regularly and young boys set with slings to scare away the birds and beasts.
scares away
scaring away
scared away
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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