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scare English

Meaning scare meaning

What does scare mean?
Definitions in simple English

scare Verb

— If something scares you, it makes you feel fear. They climbed out of the water alive--cold, wet, tired, and scared to death, but alive. Granny used to scare the hell out of us kids with her ghost stories. I read once that you can scare away a bear if you wave your arms and look big. Dark scares me. Noise scares me. And guns scare me. — If something scares somebody off, it makes them not want to do something. The high costs often scare students off. — If you scare up something, you find it, even though it's rare or hard to find. She didn't think she'd be able to scare up the cash for the trip.

scare Noun

— A sudden fright. I had quite a bad scare last night--I almost hit a deer on the highway.

scare

— verb (= frighten, affright) cause fear in The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me Ghosts could never affright her — verb (= dash) cause to lose courage dashed by the refusal — noun a sudden attack of fear — noun (= panic) sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events panic in the stock market a war scare a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building

Synonyms scare synonyms

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scare English » English

frighten alarm terrify fright fear intimidate panic threaten startle affright terrorize spook menace horrify dread dismay make afraid daunt terror shock be afraid surprise pall haunt funk frighten off deter dash cow be afraid of apprehension appal unnerve trepidation scared scare off scare away petrify panic attack frightened frighten away drive discourage consternation chill watch tremble with fright tremble timorousness terrorise

Topics scare topics

What do people use scare to talk about?
Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals

Conjugation scare conjugation

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scare · verb

Examples scare examples

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Simple sentences

Don't scare me like that!
Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.
I was just going to scare Tom.
Tom was trying to scare Mary.
I'm not trying to scare you.
If I wanted to scare you, I would tell you what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.
Don't make any noise or you'll scare the birds away.
If I wanted to scare you, I would have told you about what I dreamt about a few weeks ago.
Spiders scare me.
You scare me.
Did I scare you?
I cannot scare the birds away. I am not a scarecrow.
When I was little, I wanted to have a pet brown bear to scare my neighbors.
Her bad face doesn't scare me even a bit.
If you have problems with rats or mice, you can scare them away with ultrasound.
Sometimes you scare me.
Your threats don't scare me at all.

Movie subtitles

Nice scare tactic.
That doesn't scare you at all?
I think she thinks that I could've been trying to scare her, play a sick joke on her.
There is a punk I need to scare a lot.
You bought the kind you put in food, not the kind you scare ghosts away with.
She looks so bad I'm scared she'll scare 'em!
Yeah, I'm gonna scare them straight.
I can write all about how my mom was dying from breast cancer when I was in kindergarten, how the only thing I really remember about her is her hospital and her mechanical bed, and how the smells in there still scare the crap out of me.
Okay, we're gonna have to scare him.
Scare him?
What if I scare her away?
Well, you let him scare you stiff!
Diamond Pete could scare him, but I ain't no Sam.
Yes, I know, but they scare me to death.
To scare her, I said I'd keep her from going there by force.
Yeah. Well, you let him scare you stiff.
But they scare me to death.
If we could scare up some men to play.
Tell him who you are, that'll scare him.
Come on up. I wanna scare the Cabinet.
Well, you gave me such a scare when I couldn't find you.
Would you like us to scare it out of him? - How?
What, and scare him off?
Oh, you think you scare me on bet, huh?
Don't scare me like that.
You know, you gave me a terrific scare.
Does the thought scare you? - Not at all.
She's trying to scare us and then befriend us, you know.
To scare you.
No thanks, it was just a scare.
All we wanna do is to give Nick a good scare.
Do you think either of you can scare me like that?
I get to carry the bag, and I scare out the hares.
The trouble is I don't scare her enough.
I'll scare you up some.
I wanna scare the Cabinet.

News and current affairs

NEW HAVEN - The global economy is in the midst of its second growth scare in less than two years.
With policymakers reluctant to focus on the imperatives of structural healing, the result will be yet another growth scare - or worse.
But, while the history of stock-market prediction is littered with too much failure to try to decide whether the bounceback will continue much longer, it doesn't look like a bubble, but more like the end of a depression scare.
And large-scale farmland bubbles are quite rare: there was only one in the US in the entire twentieth century, during the great population scare of the 1970's.
But neither should we tolerate its attempts to scare policy-makers rather than inform them.
Then, in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmental scare promoted by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, foreign aid agencies and UN organizations stopped promoting DDT, and its usage declined.
The DDT scare started with Carson's claim that its use had devastating effects on bird life.
Smuggling is abetted by the tobacco industry in order to gain market share and scare finance ministers into lowering taxes.
PRAGUE - Scare stories have been an integral part of the global warming narrative for a long time.
The problem is that when these scare stories are later shown to be wrong, people become less willing to listen even to reasonable arguments about global warming.
Global-warming scare stories merely shift our focus to the least effective ways to help.
My intention isn't to scare people away from organic food.
One silver lining of the worst days of the crisis in October was to scare governments into action on the financial front.
There seemed to be some basis for this scare.
France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.
That does not seem to be the way things are moving now in Europe, if we look at France's recent election scare, not to mention Finland and Poland, where right-wing populists have now come to power.
Even Spain and Germany, despite qualifying for the next round, have started to scare theirs fans with mixed results.
Proponents of austerity currently use nominal debt figures to scare voters, even in countries with record-low interest rates and large private-sector profits that are not being channeled toward investment.
He conducted a campaign that relied on his eloquence and charisma, as well as on scare tactics.

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