Scare

scare
    n 1: 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}]
    2: a sudden attack of fear [syn: {scare}, {panic attack}]
    v 1: cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building
         frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her" [syn:
         {frighten}, {fright}, {scare}, {affright}]
    2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: {daunt},
       {dash}, {scare off}, {pall}, {frighten off}, {scare away},
       {frighten away}, {scare}]
    

Scare \Scare\, n.
   Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or
   originating in mistake. [Colloq.]
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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.
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         The noise of thy crossbow
         Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. --Shak.
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   {To scare away}, to drive away by frightening.

   {To scare up}, to find by search, as if by beating for game.
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   Syn: To alarm; frighten; startle; affright; terrify.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "scare":
      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