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Scare   /skɛr/   Listen
noun
Scare  n.  Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. (Colloq.)



verb
Scare  v. t.  (past & past part. scared; pres. part. scaring)  To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. "The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost."
To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. (Slang)
Synonyms: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.






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"Scare" Quotes from Famous Books



... contumacious resistance to the laws. Both his brother and his nephew had suffered through their close relationship to such an unruly subject, and there had been dark days enough for the family during the Armada scare, when every Papist became a mark for popular hatred, and professions of loyalty and good faith ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green

... a bad remark to begin one's journey on," said Jim Linton, following the girls up the gangway. "Doesn't it scare you, Miss Rainham?" ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce

... suffered an eclipse. See how the shadow is covering the bright disk. When the ancients saw this happening they used to make a noise, shaking the sistrum with its metal rings, drumming and trumpeting, shouting and yelling, to scare off the evil one and drive him away. It may be about four hundred years since that last took place, but to this day—draw your kerchiefs more closely round your heads and come with me to the river—to this day Christians degrade themselves by similar rites. Wherever I have ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... away from that old cat of a mother. Let her stay there now till she was darn good and sick of it. He'd just keep her guessing for awhile; a week or so would do her good. Well, he wouldn't sell the furniture—he'd just move it into another house, and give her a darn good scare. He'd get a better one, that had a porcelain bathtub instead of a zinc one, and a better porch, where the kid could be out in the sun. Yes, sir, he'd just do that little thing, and lay low and see what Marie did about that. Keep ...
— Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower

... as he neared the door. "They two may have cut and run again before I get them two old orsifers round outside. Sure to have gone, for the skipper goes along like a horse, while the admiral's more like a helephant on his pins. Scare any two boys away, let alone them. Lor', if I had on'y brought that there ...
— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn


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