Scare vs Depress - What's the difference?

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Scare is a related term of depress.

As verbs the difference between scare and depress

is that scare is to frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way while depress is to press down.

As a noun scare

is a minor fright.

scare

English

Noun

(en noun)

A minor fright.

Johnny had a bad scare last night.

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A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

JM is a scare to the capitalists of this country.

Synonyms

* fright

Verb

To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

Did it scare you when I said "Boo!"?

* (rfdate) (Shakespeare)

The noise of thy crossbow / Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.

* (The Langoliers)

(Laurel Stevenson) Would you please be quiet? You're scaring the little girl.

(Craig Toomey) Scaring the little girl?! Scaring the little girl?! Lady!

Synonyms

* frighten * terrify * See also

Derived terms

* bird-scarer * Red scare * scarecrow * scared * scaredy-cat * scaremonger * scare out of one's wits * scarer * scare straight * scare the pants off of

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depress

English

Verb

(es)

To press down.

Depress the upper lever to start the machine.

To make depressed, sad or bored.

Winter depresses me.

To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.

Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.

To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).

(math) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.

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