All buffaloing synonyms

verb buffaloing

• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• unnerve — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
• appall — If something appalls you, it disgusts you because it seems so bad or unpleasant.
• daunt — If something daunts you, it makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.
• strong-arm — using, involving, or threatening the use of physical force or violence to gain an objective: strong-arm methods.
• bully — A bully is someone who uses their strength or power to hurt or frighten other people.
• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• victimize — to make a victim of.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• dupe — duplicate.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• disappoint — to fail to fulfill the expectations or wishes of: His gross ingratitude disappointed us.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• circumvent — If someone circumvents a rule or restriction, they avoid having to obey the rule or restriction, in a clever and perhaps dishonest way.
• falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• discombobulate — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
• baffle — If something baffles you, you cannot understand it or explain it.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• counter — In a place such as a shop or café, a counter is a long narrow table or flat surface at which customers are served.
• frustrate — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
• nullify — to render or declare legally void or inoperative: to nullify a contract.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• mislead — to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
• thrill — to affect with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement, as to produce a tremor or tingling sensation through the body.
• touch — to put the hand, finger, etc., on or into contact with (something) to feel it: He touched the iron cautiously.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
• inspire — to fill with an animating, quickening, or exalting influence: His courage inspired his followers.
• constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
• alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
• terrify — to fill with terror or alarm; make greatly afraid.
• hound — Nautical. either of a pair of fore-and-aft members at the lower end of the head of a mast, for supporting the trestletrees, that support an upper mast at its heel. Compare cheek (def 12).
• disquiet — lack of calm, peace, or ease; anxiety; uneasiness.
• ruffle — to beat (a drum) in this manner.
• oblige — to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity.
• spook — Informal. a ghost; specter.
• chill — When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze.
• ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• lick — to pass the tongue over the surface of, as to moisten, taste, or eat (often followed by up, off, from, etc.): to lick a postage stamp; to lick an ice-cream cone.
• befog — to surround with fog
• discountenance — to disconcert, embarrass, or abash: With his composure, he survived every attempt to discountenance him.
• boggle — If you say that the mind boggles at something or that something boggles the mind, you mean that it is so strange or amazing that it is difficult to imagine or understand.