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scare someone out of their mind

scare someone out of their mind verb: synonym of scare someone out of their wits (“to frighten greatly”).

Verb

scare someone out of their mind (third-person singular simple present scares someone out of their mind, present participle scaring someone out of their mind, simple past and past participle scared someone out of their mind)

  1. Synonym of scare someone out of their wits (“to frighten greatly”).
    • He scared me out of my mind, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.
    • That spirit told me there was little choice except to scare me out of my mind enough to open it to the rest of my being.2012 June 5, Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, Shawnodese, “Envisioning the World” (chapter 3), in Dreaming With the Wheel, Touchstone Books, →ISBN, page 44

Synonyms of scare someone out of their mind

Forms of scare someone out of their mind

third-person singular presentscares someone out of their mind
present participlescaring someone out of their mind
past participlescared someone out of their mind
pastscared someone out of their mind

Questions about scare someone out of their mind

What does scare someone out of their mind mean?
Scare someone out of their mind means synonym of scare someone out of their wits (“to frighten greatly”).
What part of speech is scare someone out of their mind?
Scare someone out of their mind is a verb.
What is the past tense of scare someone out of their mind?
The past tense of scare someone out of their mind is scared someone out of their mind.

Words near scare someone out of their mind in the dictionary

  1. scare line
  2. scare lines
  3. scare off
  4. scare quote
  5. scare quotes
  6. scare someone out of their mind
  7. scare someone out of their wits
  8. scare someone to death
  9. scare stories
  10. scare story
  11. scare straight

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