'Scare' definitions:
Definition of 'scare'
(from WordNet)
noun
Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events; "panic in the stock market"; "a war scare"; "a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building" [syn: panic, scare]
noun
A sudden attack of fear [syn: scare, panic attack]
verb
Cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" [syn: frighten, fright, scare, affright]
verb
Cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare]
Definition of 'Scare'
From: GCIDE
- Scare \Scare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scared; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaring.] [OE. skerren, skeren, Icel. skirra to bar, prevent, skirrask to shun, shrink from; or fr. OE. skerre, adj., scared, Icel. skjarr; both perhaps akin to E. sheer to turn.] To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. [1913 Webster]
- The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To scare away, to drive away by frightening.
- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Scare'
From: GCIDE
- Scare \Scare\, n. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'scare'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abject fear,
- affright,
- alarm,
- awe,
- blue funk,
- bluff off,
- collect,
- come by,
- consternation,
- cow,
- cowardice,
- curdle the blood,
- daunt,
- dig up,
- dismay,
- disquiet,
- dread,
- fear,
- find,
- freeze,
- fright,
- frighten,
- frighten off,
- funk,
- gather,
- get,
- horrification,
- horrify,
- horripilate,
- horror,
- intimidate,
- make one tremble,
- menace,
- panic,
- panic fear,
- paralyze,
- petrify,
- phobia,
- put to flight,
- raise,
- raise apprehensions,
- scare away,
- scare up,
- scrape together,
- scrape up,
- shake,
- shake up,
- shock,
- spook,
- stagger,
- stampede,
- start,
- startle,
- strike terror into,
- surprise,
- terrify,
- terror,
- terrorize,
- threaten,
- unholy dread,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstring