Synonyms of the word

scarer

• n. One who, or that which, scares.

effigy

• n. A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
• n. A likeness of a person.

image

• n. An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture.
• n. A mental picture of something not real or not present.
• n. (computing) A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image,…
• n. A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is, or wishes to…
• n. (mathematics) Something mapped to by a function.
• n. (mathematics) The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something.
• n. (obsolete) Show; appearance; cast.
• v. (transitive) To represent by an image or symbol; to portray.
• v. (transitive) To reflect, mirror.
• v. (transitive) To create an image of.
• v. (transitive, computing) To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity.

scarecrow

• n. An effigy, typically made of straw and dressed in old clothes, fixed to a pole in a field to deter birds…
• n. (figuratively, pejorative) A tall, thin, awkward person.
• n. (figuratively) Anything that appears terrifying but offers no danger.
• n. A person clad in rags and tatters.
• n. (Britain, dialect) A bird, the black tern.
• v. (transitive) To splay rigidly outward, like the arms of a scarecrow.

simulacrum

• n. An image or representation.
• n. A faint trace or semblance.

strawman

• n. Alternative spelling of straw man.
• v. Alternative spelling of straw man.