[
UK
/skˈeə/
]
[ US /ˈskɛɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈskɛɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden attack of fear
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sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
panic in the stock market
a bomb scare led them to evacuate the building
a war scare
VERB
-
cause fear in
The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me
Ghosts could never affright her -
cause to lose courage
dashed by the refusal
How To Use scare In A Sentence
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
- choco-lemon's diary choco-lemon's Diaryland Diary nerves up until lunch this was a completely horrible day. it picked up when me, lindsay, and krist stopped at murray to buy a quatch. once we smoked i bowl i felt a million times better. and that scares me. Nerves
- If Ratzinger wants to stay in Italy and scare school kids by telling them God is watching when they French kiss or masturbate, that is his sexual silliness. Joe Cutbirth: The Pope Can't Get Away With This
- I was too scared to move.
- A guard with a motorcycle and a shotgun could move through fields at night and work with farmers to scare elephants and hippos.
- You scared the life out of me coming in so suddenly like that.
- I could see my homeboy was scared, but that little Maya tried to kick at the old man.
- But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.
- I am scared to fly in a plane.
- I wanted to ask her out but was scared that she might refuse.