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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



... extradition, he waived his claim, and went with Mr. Carpenter, and had since remained in his office in the care of a constable. He had told his whole story voluntarily; Mr. Carpenter had offered him no inducements whatever. Kelly also stated that he had not been instructed to kill Mr. Smith, only to scare him, and give him a ...
— The Story of a Dark Plot - or Tyranny on the Frontier • A.L.O. C. and W.W. Smith
 
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... the scene, to find, instead of a snake, a lizard, perhaps more useful in the harmony of Nature than a frog, and certainly more endearing, since it possesses the habit of silence. Unless the frog is past recovery it has become a practice to scare the lizard, and to suggest to the frog ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
 
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... went on, 'what a girl it is! She can't scare and she can't soil. She's white-hot youth and innocence, and she'd take no more harm than clean steel ...
— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan
 
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... the blubber and skins were stowed in the whale-boat; their last care being to roll the poor bodies of the seals now bereft of those coveted coats which had caused their destruction, into the sea. This was done in order that the remains might not scare away others of the herd from such inhospitable shores. The task was soon accomplished, for the rocks shelved down abruptly into the water; and, when the place was made tidy again, the brothers set sail for home with their cargo, going back the contrary way they came, so as to have the advantage ...
— Fritz and Eric - The Brother Crusoes • John Conroy Hutcheson
 
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... is there any hope? I am not a fool—I sha'n't go in and scare the women: is there ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
 
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