spook
funk
skittishness
restiveness
send shivers down someone's spine
nervously
alarming
put the heart across one
scary
scarecrow
sweats
make someone's hair stand on end
panic
overnervousness
piggle
nerviness
white-knuckle
curl someone's hair
shit oneself
flay
spook out
dismay
appal
horrify
jump in one's skin
take fright
alarm
jitter
appall
fray
hairy
shuddersome
shiver
nervousness
nervosity
frisson
frighten
shudder
thrill
quiver
chill
quake in one's boots
tingle
spookish
nail-biting
willies
tiswas
get the wind up
fantigue
have the wind up
make someone's jaw drop
performance anxiety
geek out
pant-wettingly
squeamish
freak out
rattle
flabbergaster
perturb
shyness
disquiet
cark
unhinge
toey
frighten the piss out of
shudderful
bundle of nerves
skittish
concerningly
trouble
distract
surprise
give someone the creeps
disorder
apprehension
apprehensiveness
nervine
make someone's skin crawl
spookable
owly-eyed
dread
put the shits up someone
formidable
out of one's skin
begruntle
have kittens
fearful
run scared
scare the living daylights out of
eek
fuss
startle
fear
paranemically

English words for 'To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling).'

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