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Scare

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Noun

1. panic, scare

sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

Example Sentences:
'panic in the stock market'
'a war scare'
'a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building'

2. panic attack, scare

a sudden attack of fear

Verb

3. affright, fright, frighten, scare

cause fear in

Example Sentences:
'The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me'
'Ghosts could never affright her'

4. dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off

cause to lose courage

Example Sentences:
'dashed by the refusal'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Scare

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verb
1. 
to fill or be filled with fear or alarm
2. (tr; often foll by away or off)
to drive (away) by frightening
3. (transitive) US and Canadian informal (foll by up)
a. 
to produce (a meal) quickly from whatever is available
b. 
to manage to find (something) quickly or with difficulty
brewers need to scare up more sales
noun
4. 
a sudden attack of fear or alarm
5. 
a period of general fear or alarm
adjective
6. 
causing (needless) fear or alarm
a scare story

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Scare

see synonyms of scare
verb transitiveWord forms: scared or ˈscaring
1. 
to fill with fear or terror; esp., to frighten suddenly or startle; terrify
verb intransitive
2. 
to become frightened, esp. suddenly
a person who scares easily
noun
3. 
a sudden fear or panic; attack of fright, often unreasonable
4. 
a state of widespread fear or panic
a war scare

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Scare

see synonyms of scare
v. scared, scar·ing, scares
v.tr.
To strike with sudden fear; alarm. See Synonyms at frighten.
v.intr.
To become frightened: a child who scares easily.
n.
1. A condition or sensation of sudden fear: That mask gave me a real scare.
2. A general state of alarm; a panic: a bomb scare that necessitated evacuating the building.
adj.
Serving or intended to frighten people: scare stories; scare tactics.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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