to gast
9.9
To make someone feel very frightened
- verb
- Archaic
:
asustar
- The loud crash in the night gast him, leaving him too afraid to move.
Examples
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Prepare to have your flabber truly gasted.
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The sudden appearance of the ghost gast the travelers as they explored the old castle.
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She gast the children with her spooky story about the haunted house.
Synonyms
to frighten
vsto gast
540
1.0
To make someone feel afraid
is presented as an older form with same basic meaning
to terrify
vsto gast
148
3.2
To make someone feel very frightened
is similar but appears as an older word here
to fright
vsto gast
2
3.2
To make someone feel afraid
is shown in the description as an older verb form
9.9
To frighten someone very much
is the same meaning but now archaic in use
9.9
To cause sudden fear in someone
is the same action but now considered archaic
9.9
To frighten or startle someone and make them pull back suddenly
is the general act of causing fear rather than a sudden startle
Antonyms
How Frightening
to gast
- Archaic
to terrify
148
3.2
148
3.2
to petrify
7
4.8
7
4.8
to frighten
540
1.0
540
1.0
to scare
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
to startle
131
3.7
131
3.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gast as a verb comes from the same old word gāst meaning 'spirit' and is related to ghost and ghastly, so it once meant 'to frighten'. So to gast someone is to scare them.