Illustration: Beside the bicycle parking area of a Japanese apartment block, an older teenager blocks a younger teenager's path. The aggressor holds one fist threateningly beside the younger person's face and extends the other hand toward a coin purse.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

脅おどかす

odokasu

to scare, to startle

脅かす also has the reading おびやかす, meaning to threaten. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

脅おどかさないでよ。
Don’t scare me like that!
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彼女かのじょは猫ねこを脅おどかして追おい払はらった。
She scared the cat away.
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びっくりした！いきなり後うしろから脅おどかさないでよ！
You scared me! Don’t sneak up on me from behind!
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Kanji in 脅

脅threaten; coerceOnキョウKunおびやかす・おどす・おどかす

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