out+of+one's+wits
51fear — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Anticipation of misfortune Nouns 1. fear, fearfulness, phobia; timidity, timorousness, diffidence; solicitude, anxiety, worry, care, apprehension; apprehensiveness, misgiving, mistrust, doubt, suspicion …
52afraid — adjective 1) they ran away because they were afraid Syn: frightened, scared, terrified, fearful, petrified, scared witless, scared to death, terror stricken, terror struck, frightened out of one s wits, scared out of one s wits, shaking in one s… …
53Fear — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Fear >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 fear fear timidity diffidence want of confidence Sgm: N 1 apprehensiveness apprehensiveness fearfulness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 solicitude solicitude anxiety care …
54scare\ stiff — • scare out of one s wits • scare stiff • scare the daylights out of v. phr. informal To frighten very much. The owl s hooting scared him out of his wits. The child was scared stiff in the dentist s chair. Pete s ghost story scared the daylights… …
55wit — See: at one s wit s end, keep one s head or keep one s wits about one, scare out of one s wits …
56frighten — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To strike with fear] Syn. scare, alarm, terrify, daunt, dismay, cow, terrorize, shock, startle, dishearten, abash, dispirit, throw into a fright, raise apprehension, intimidate, deter, threaten, prey on the mind, badger,… …
57horrify — v 1. shock, startle, astound, stun, stupefy, paralyze, petrify; appall, consternate, daunt, unnerve, abash, floor; disturb, distress, harrow, agitate, dismay; outrage, scandalize, shock, Sl. gross out; disgust, nauseate, sicken, Inf. turn one s… …
58scare — v 1. frighten, fright, affright, Archaic. affray, alarm, startle, shock; terrify, daunt, strike terror into, terrorize, appall, horrify, dismay; put the fear of God into, intimidate, awe, Sl. psych out, cow, threaten, menace; Sl. scare the… …
59terrify — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. terrorize, frighten, alarm; appall, dismay; cow, intimidate; panic, stampede. See fear. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. shock, horrify, terrorize; see frighten 1 . See Synonym Study at frighten . III… …
60Beside — Be*side , prep. [OE. biside, bisiden, bisides, prep. and adv., beside, besides; pref. be by + side. Cf. Besides, and see {Side}, n.] 1. At the side of; on one side of. Beside him hung his bow. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Aside from; out of the… …
