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Frighten off   /frˈaɪtən ɔf/   Listen
Frighten off

verb
1.
Cause to lose courage.  Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, pall, scare, scare away, scare off.






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"Frighten off" Quotes from Famous Books



... now, thanks to the verse: "A woman is the tyrant of the old man who marries her."[583] Again, it is because of Euripides that we are incessantly watched, that we are shut up behind bolts and bars, and that dogs are kept to frighten off the gallants. Let that pass; but formerly it was we who had the care of the food, who fetched the flour from the storeroom, the oil and the wine; we can do it no more. Our husbands now carry little Spartan keys on their persons, made with three notches and full ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al



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