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Scaremonger

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people.

    "I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at the risk of being again denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of fiction—fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral."

  2. 2
    a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To spread worrying rumours.

    "We're not scaremongering / This is really happening, happening"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From scare + monger.

Etymology 2

From scare + monger.

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