Frightener vs Scarer - What's the difference?
frightener | scarer | Synonyms |
One who, or that which, scares.
* 1894 , William Crooke, An Introduction to the Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India
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Frightener is a synonym of scarer.
As nouns the difference between frightener and scarer
is that frightener is agent noun of frighten; one who frightens while scarer is one who, or that which, scares.scarer
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Noun
(en noun)- The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...
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