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verb (used with object)

to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.

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verb (used without object)

to become frightened: That horse scares easily.

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noun

a sudden fright or alarm, especially with little or no reason.

a time or condition of alarm or worry: For three months there was a war scare.

Verb phrase

scare up, Informal. to obtain with effort; find or gather: to scare up money.

Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) Middle English skerren < Old Norse skirra to frighten, derivative of skjarr timid, shy; (noun) late Middle English skere, derivative of the v.

Related forms

scar·er, noun

scar·ing·ly, adverb

un·scared, adjective

Synonyms
1. startle, intimidate. See frighten.

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Example Sentences

If scare tactics or inappropriate promises are being made, the applicant is denied.

It can also scare away soldiers without actually killing them.

The dogs are trained to scare cheetahs away by barking at them real loud.

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If scare tactics or inappropriate promises are being made, the applicant is denied.

It can also scare away soldiers without actually killing them.

The dogs are trained to scare cheetahs away by barking at them real loud.

Solar flares are definately a scare to me and should be a scare to everyone else as well.

Let's stop using the mythical global warming scare tactic to manage everything.

Conscientious fishermen even attach streamers to their lines to scare off birds that might become entangled.

And now that you're in on the gag, you're offered the opportunity to scare it forward by providing someone else's info.

Messages intended to scare women back into the home also portrayed them as the cause of crime.

Every other environmental scare has been either wrong or badly exaggerated.

Tarantulas use the same scare tactics as hot chilies to avoid being eaten, a new study suggests.

It is encouraging that people are waking up to the scare campaigns.

After they emerge, larvae cause the dying caterpillar to swing its head violently and scare away predatory bugs.

So now the protesters sent some guys over to scare the crap out of the chancellor.

Libya shows that this may scare some regimes into submission, provided they do not expect to be clobbered anyway.

His front yard is booby-trapped with all sorts of creepy gizmos to scare the crap out of unsuspecting neighborhood kids.

Both moles and humans scare up earthworms through vibrations.

Some states required that they be dragged by horses when on public roads so they wouldn't scare oncoming horses.

Consider how many of them have child-care expenses, a parent living with them, or a health scare recently survived.

The pastor while beating the woman with brute force screams into the woman's ear to scare the demon even more.

Scare the pants off the ingorant yokels and they'll do anything you say.

To scare off the predatory creature, people covered their homes with the color red and filled the air with loud noises.

To scare or intimidate them will end up being counterproductive.

The little girl was playing with a balloon when the doves got scare and started to fly.

Trying to scare people into a desired behavior has not nor will it ever work.

The animals they sculpt may be wild but they don't scare you to look at them.

Even if you're generally pretty nice, scare the crap out of them during the first week or so.

The orchid flower's delicate look might scare people, but it's really not so fragile, growers say.

But consider carefully-the cannibalism aspect might scare someone off.

It didn't happen, but the scare got everyone's attention.

Male koalas bellow noisily to attract the attention of distant females and to scare rivals.

In such places, the toothy hunters can scare many people away from the beach.

Financing was hard to scare up, and deals were smaller and rarer.

They want to use this case as a bogeyman to scare people into doing what they want, to pay exorbitant damages.

And sometimes, in the name of science, researchers use it to scare people.

Several other whales make sounds that scare or confuse the fish and draw them up to the surface.

Actually, video might scare off potential developers.

It was a pen with erasable ink, and existed mainly to scare people who wrote a lot of.

But this time the scare is about more than bad mortgage loans and their baleful effect on the credit markets.

It was polluted enough to scare away potential residents.

So here's an extraordinary guy making some extraordinary efforts to scare up some of that.

The union denounced the lay-off threat, calling it a scare tactic.

These kind of articles actually scare people away from eating fish.

They're dedicated to the point of being obsessed, so smart they scare you, and hot in a possibly undefinable way.

Spreading scare stories about cannabis was a way to give hemp a bad name.

Their roar is used to scare off intruders or call home members of their group.

The news wants to scare you and has been doing this for decades.

The people came up with a plan to scare the dragon away with an even fiercer creature and thus the lion dance was born.

In some cases, they're fighting the green power plants with scare tactics.

Concerns about corruption could also scare away potential business partners.

These seem to be largely intended to scare children away from eating fish.

How about you provide an alternate solutionit's easy to be scared, and it's easy to scare.

Tobias was interviewed dozens of times for the kind of scare pieces that local newscasts wedge between weather and sports.

They distort incentives, and scare investors in other industries who fear they may be next.

So they don't scare people as they sniff through the crowds.

Your version of the story is what media and environmental activists had been playing all along to scare the general public.

It's clearly a scare tactic to goose companies into securing employee's data.

It might help to put the scare into those who made a one-time lapse in judgement versus being habitual cheaters.

Luckily, they were able to scare the bear away with a flare gun.

The anthrax scare was created as an excuse to install mail surveillance, once they got what they wanted the incidents stopped.

No one is trying to scare you, but you need to have a realistic idea of what grad school can be like.

In normal times this would scare bondholders, who view the primary surplus as a guarantee that they will get paid.

These flimsy yet effective guides urge the brumbies into the yard, where the hands eventually scare them into the steel pens.

Don't scare them by magnifying the importance of the observation:.

It was the handle on which bells were hung which would be rattled to scare away evil spirits.

Don`t let the ghosts in the pyramids scare you away.

But there is no need to commit economic suicide because of anthropogenic global warming scare tactics.

Research about the affects only, not trying new things to dose the ocean with to scare all of you.

It's not real, it's designed to scare you and have you send it to all your friends, and unfortunately you fell for.

Everybody was wearing bells around their necks-bells to scare away the big scary bears out there.

There is persent big energy that wants you to keep paying them and there is the climate scare mongers that want your money.

And that might scare some good well-meaning people off.

Thankfully no enduring consequences for her but huge scare of the kind which entirely readdresses the way you see life.

The things that scare me are irreversible thresholds.

The emergencies can scare you to death and eat up your emotional energy, but they are usually few and far between.

My husband and the dog face off, never breaking skin but scare tactics, i think he is being protective.

It should be enough to scare us into action, but apparently not.

It did, however, increase my heart rate and scare the hell out of me.

Unfortunately some landlords are not above trying to scare tenants.

Speaking as a gun-owner, two things scare the bejesus out of me.

It's always better to scare them off early since it makes for less grading later on.

Jones rather obvious vested interest, which renders this article as largely a self serving attempt at scare tactics.

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World English Dictionary

scare (skɛə)

—vb
1.	to fill or be filled with fear or alarm
2.	(tr; often foll by away or off) to drive (away) by frightening
3.	informal (US), (Canadian) (tr), (foll by up)
	a. to produce (a meal) quickly from whatever is available
	b. to manage to find (something) quickly or with difficulty: brewers need to scare up more sales

—n
4.	a sudden attack of fear or alarm
5.	a period of general fear or alarm

—*adj*
6.	causing (needless) fear or alarm: a scare story

[C12: from Old Norse skirra; related to Norwegian skjerra, Swedish dialect skjarra]

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Word Origin & History

scare

c.1200, from O.N. skirra "to frighten," related to skjarr "timid, shy," of unknown origin. The noun is attested from 1520s. To scare up "procure, obtain" is first recorded 1846, Amer.Eng., from notion of rousing game from cover.

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Idioms & Phrases

scare

In addition to the idioms beginning with scare, also see run scared.

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