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Scare   /skɛr/   Listen
Scare

noun
1.
Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.  Synonym: panic.  "A war scare" , "A bomb scare led them to evacuate the building"
2.
A sudden attack of fear.  Synonym: panic attack.
verb
(past & past part. scared; pres. part. scaring)
1.
Cause fear in.  Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten.  "Ghosts could never affright her"
2.
Cause to lose courage.  Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off.



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"Scare" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the answer, and then the big fish flopped his tail like a fan and made such a wave that poor Bully was upset, turning a somersault in the water. But that didn't scare him, and when he had turned over right side up again he swam to the fish once more ...
— Bully and Bawly No-Tail • Howard R. Garis

... answered, "I miss the little chap as much as any of you; perhaps more. But my wife—she's got a sort of crooked notion that the boy won't come home alive if she lets him go to the river. She got a bad scare last time, and it isn't any use arguing ...
— Boyhood in Norway • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... to fall backwards. Then Odysseus seized Irus by the feet, and dragged him out of the house, and to the gate of the courtyard. He lifted him up and put him standing against the wall. Placing the staff in the beggar's hands, he said, 6 Sit there, and scare off the dogs and swine, and do not let such a one as you lord it over strangers. A worse thing might have ...
— The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy • Padriac Colum

... "You can't scare me that way, Chicken Little, I think the ranch is going to be a pretty loose fit for all of us for a few days. But your school begins about the middle of September, doesn't it? That ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... my lord?" she asked with a scornful laugh. "Gang an' scare the stane lion-beast at yer ha'-door. Haud oot o' the ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875. • Various


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