Usually means: Scare away, deter from approaching.
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  1. frighten off: Merriam-Webster
  2. frighten off: Vocabulary.com
  3. frighten off: Dictionary.com
  4. frighten off: Rhymezone
  5. frighten off: FreeDictionary.org
  6. frighten off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. frighten off: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. frighten off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. frighten off: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. frighten off: Encyclopedia

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  1. frighten off: Idioms

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verb:  cause to lose courage


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