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1scare Listen to audio/ˈskeɚ/ verb
scares; scared; scar·ing
1 [+ obj] : to cause (someone) to become afraid : frighten
You scared me. I didn't see you there. Stop that, you're scaring the children. The loud noise scared them. = They were scared by the loud noise. You nearly scared me to death. [=you scared me very much]
2 [no obj] : to become afraid
I don't scare easily.
scare away/off [phrasal verb]
scare (someone or something) away/off or scare away/off (someone or something) : to cause (someone or something) to go away and stay away because of fear or because of possible trouble, difficulty, etc.
The dog scared the prowler away. The noise scared off the birds. Tourists have been scared off by the recent violence in the city. [=tourists have not visited the city because of the recent violence there] She finally found a man who's not scared away by the fact that she is a single mom raising two children.
scare into [phrasal verb]
scare (someone) into (something) : to cause (someone) to do (something) because of fear
The police scared him into confessing his crime. They tried to scare us into buying more insurance.
scare up [phrasal verb]
scare (someone or something) up or scare up (someone or something) US, informal : to find or get (someone or something) with some difficulty
We managed to scare up [=scrape up] the money. Let's try to scare up some people to play football.

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