Verb

• S: (v) dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify (fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised) "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) frighten, fright, scare, affright (cause fear in) "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her"
• S: (v) stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir (stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of) "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country"
• S: (v) arouse, elicit, enkindle, kindle, evoke, fire, raise, provoke (call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)) "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
• S: (v) make, create (make or cause to be or to become) "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame