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v. To strike with sudden fear; alarm. See Synonyms at frighten.

verb-intransitive. To become frightened: a child who scares easily.

n. A condition or sensation of sudden fear.

n. 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.

phrasal-verb. scare up Informal To gather or prepare with considerable effort or ingenuity: managed to scare up some folding chairs for the unexpected crowd.

n. A minor fright.

n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.

v. To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way.

v. To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm.

n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake.

Timid; shying.

To frighten; terrify suddenly; strike with sudden terror or fear.

Synonyms To daunt, appal, frighten; scare represents the least of dignity in the act or in the result; it generally implies suddenness.

To become frightened; be scared: as, a horse that scares easily.

n. A sudden fright or panic: particularly applied to a sudden terror inspired by a trifling cause, or a purely imaginary or causeless alarm.

n. An obsolete form of scar.

Lean; scanty; scraggy.

To fasten (two pieces of wood) by splicing; join by fitting; splice.

n. A joint in carpentry; a splice; one of the parts of a fishing-rod; etc.

n. In golf, the narrow part of the neck of the club where it is fastened to the shaft, then glued and bound with whipping.

n. a sudden attack of fear

n. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events

v. cause to lose courage

v. cause fear in

"In the U.S., food irradiation is used for various products, including ground beef, but most retailers resist the practice, lest the word irradiated'' on the label scare off customers."

scared    scares    scaring   

fearfulness    fright    fear    intimidate    restrain   

to scare away    to scare up    scarecrow   

scary   

scarer    scarecrow    scared    bird-scarer   

alarm    terrify    frighten    affright    startle    fright    fear   

Adair    Aer    Altair    Astaire    Ayre    Baer    Bear    Blair    Cher    Clair   

epidemic    outbreak    upheaval    fright    nuisance    worry    setback    fuss    vaccine