About The Word Scare

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Scare

Scare Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Scare?
[n] a sudden attack of fear
[n] sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare" [v] cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me" [v] cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" Synonyms | Synonyms for Scare: affright | fright | frighten | panic | panic attack Related Terms | Find terms related to Scare: See Also | alarm | anxiety | anxiousness | appal | appall | awe | bluff | consternate | dash | daunt | dismay | dread | excite | fear | fear | fearfulness | fright | frighten away | frighten off | horrify | intimidate | pall | red scare | restrain | scare | scare away | scare off | shake | shake up | spook | stimulate | stir | terrify | terrorise | terrorize Scare In Webster's Dictionary \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\, n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.] |
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