Panic and Deter

noun

• An overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety.
  • synonyms: terror, affright
• Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
  • usage: "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
  • synonyms: scare

verb

• Be overcome by a sudden fear.
  • usage: "The students panicked when told that final exams were less than a week away"
• Cause sudden fear in or fill with sudden panic.
  • usage: "The mere thought of an isolation cell panicked the prisoners"

• (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.
• (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; especially, a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
• (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.
• (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

verb

• Try to prevent; show opposition to.
  • usage: "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
  • synonyms: discourage
• Turn away from by persuasion.
  • usage: "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people"
  • synonyms: dissuade

(v.t.) To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences or difficulty, risk, etc.