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scare
[skair] 
verb, scared, scar⋅ing, noun –verb (used with object)
| 1. | to fill, esp. suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm. |
–verb (used without object)
| 2. | to become frightened: That horse scares easily. |
–noun
—Verb phrase| 3. | a sudden fright or alarm, esp. with little or no reason. |
| 4. | a time or condition of alarm or worry: For three months there was a war scare. |
| 5. | scare up, Informal. to obtain with effort; find or gather: to scare up money. |
Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) ME skerren < ON skirra to frighten, deriv. of skjarr timid, shy; (n.) late ME skere, deriv. of the v.
1150–1200; (v.) ME skerren < ON skirra to frighten, deriv. of skjarr timid, shy; (n.) late ME skere, deriv. of the v.
Related forms:
scarer, noun
scar⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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| scare (skâr) v. scared, scar·ing, scares v. tr. To strike with sudden fear; alarm. See Synonyms at frighten. v. intr. To become frightened: a child who scares easily. n.
Phrasal Verb(s): scare up Informal To gather or prepare with considerable effort or ingenuity: managed to scare up some folding chairs for the unexpected crowd. [Middle English skerren, scaren, from Old Norse skirra, from skjarr, timid.] scar'er n. |
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Scare
Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang] Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.Scare
Scare\, n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
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Language Translation for : scare
Spanish:
asustar,
German:
erschrecken,
Japanese:
おびえさせる
scare (v.)
c.1200, from O.N. skirra "to frighten," related to skjarr "timid, shy," of unknown origin. The noun is attested from 1530. To scare up "procure, obtain" is first recorded 1846, Amer.Eng., from notion of rousing game from cover. Scarecrow first recorded 1553, earliest ref. is to a person employed to scare birds. Stick-figure sense is implied by 1589. Scary is first recorded 1582; scaremonger is from 1888. To scare up "find, produce" is 1853, from the notion of hunters rousing game Scared stiff first recorded 1900; scared shitless is from 1936. Scaredy-cat "timid person" first attested 1933, in Dorothy Parker.
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scare
In addition to the idioms beginning with scare, also see run scared.
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