Assure
Assure verb - To ease the grief or distress of.
Frighten
Frighten verb - To strike with fear.
Usage example: around the campfire the campers tried to frighten one another with ghostly legends and grisly tales
Nearby Words: frightening, fright, frighting
Common collocations
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