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• scare — scare1 [skeə US sker] v [Date: 1100 1200; : Old Norse; Origin: skirra, from skjarr shy, fearful ] 1.) [T] to make someone feel frightened = ↑frighten →↑afraid ▪ Loud noises can scare animals or birds. scare the life/living daylights/hell etc out… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• scare — 1. verb stop it, you re scaring me Syn: frighten, startle, alarm, terrify, petrify, intimidate, terrorize, make afraid, make fearful, fill with fear, give someone a fright, panic, throw into a panic, shock, unnerve, cow; strike terror into, put …   Thesaurus of popular words

• scare — v. & n. v. 1 tr. frighten, esp. suddenly (his expression scared us). 2 tr. (as scared adj.) (usu. foll. by of, or to + infin.) frightened; terrified (scared of his own shadow). 3 tr. (usu. foll. by away, off, up, etc.) drive away by frightening.… …   Useful english dictionary

• scare — 1. verb stop it, you re scaring me Syn: frighten, startle, alarm, terrify, unnerve, worry, intimidate, terrorize, cow; informal freak out; Brit.; informal put the wind up; N.Amer.; informal spook 2. noun you gave me a sca …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• scare — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ major, nasty, terrible ▪ a major health scare ▪ food, health ▪ AIDS …   Collocations dictionary

• scare — scare1 [ sker ] verb * transitive to make someone feel frightened or worried: I m sorry, I didn t mean to scare you. scare the life/daylights out of someone (=scare someone very much): What are you doing in there? You scared the life out of me.… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• scare — I UK [skeə(r)] / US [sker] verb Word forms scare : present tense I/you/we/they scare he/she/it scares present participle scaring past tense scared past participle scared * a) [transitive] to make someone feel frightened or worried I m sorry, I… …   English dictionary

• scare — 1 verb 1 (T) to make someone feel frightened: Ignore him, he s just trying to scare us. | scare the hell/life/shit out of sb (=scare someone very much): You scared the hell out of me jumping out like that! 2 (I) to become frightened: I don t… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• scare — [skeə] verb I 1) [T] to make someone feel frightened I m sorry, I didn t mean to scare you.[/ex] 2) [I] to become frightened • scare sb away II noun [C] scare [skeə] 1) a situation that makes people suddenly feel frightened or worried about… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• Barack Obama assassination scare in Tennessee — This article is about the Tennessee assassination plot. For other assassination threats against Barack Obama, see Barack Obama assassination threats …   Wikipedia

• Poisoned candy scare — The poisoned candy scare was a moral panic in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s regarding the threat that children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by tampering, especially during… …   Wikipedia