WordNet
v. cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, scare]
Usage examples of "frighten away".
More than once, Keman had shifted to his dragon-form to frighten away predators that neither he nor Mero saw or sensed in any way.
The harper who taught me my craft threw up his hands in horror as if I had blasphemed his Gods, and swore it would make an unholy clamor, fit only to frighten away enemies.
And as for men, you have good cause to know that I could frighten away any man alive.
They make a show to frighten away danger, and warn us, but they are trained according to the Way of the Leaf.
One of the steel-capped Street Guards, in a leather coat sewn with overlapping square metal plates and a Golden Hand on the left shoulder, stood below the statue using a long limber pole to frighten away black-winged gray pigeons.
Mustafa pretended that he kept these lions to frighten away the enemies of Mudge, and for this purpose he had a large iron enclosure erected all around the kingdom, so that no one could come in or go out without passing through the royal lion reservation.
Belknap was a keen poultry farmer, he made capons and poulardes and bought up pure-bred chicken at the Nairobi sales, and he kept a shotgun on his verandah to frighten away hawks and cerval-cats.
He wanted a steady food source that the shadows couldn't frighten away.