scare
[sker]
Definition:
1. Sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events.
2. A sudden attack of fear.
3. Cause fear in.
4. Cause to lose courage.
'scare' example sentence:
- A loudhailer blared warnings of a bomb scare.
- Sniffer dogs are friendly and cute, so they don't scare people as they sniff through the crowds.
- Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us.
- We were scared stiff.
- He doesn't scare so easily.
- There was another bomb scare in a large London store last night during late night shopping.
- One thing I am sure of was that she was scared.
- The silence and emptiness of the house did not scare her.
- Some people think that a good scare is a cure for hiccups.
- He doesn't scare easily.
- In high school I was scared to death of you.
- I'm scared I'm going to fall.
- They managed to scare the bears away.
- A police spokesman said that this was the third bomb scare within a week and that we should all be on our guard.
- Did people still tell their kids imbecilic scare stories about bogey policewomen?
- I am not using scare tactics.
- Now that the swine flu scare seems to have died down. Does this mean we all overreacted?
- We made a terrible voice to scare them even more, and then we slipped off the window sill.
- We've had quite a scare.
- I have to admit, the idea of marriage scares me.
- Rising prices are scaring customers off.
- The scare has led puzzled officials to warn consumers off raw tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and sprouts.
- I was that scared I didn't know what to do.
- True, the drought is serious, but it can't scare us.
- a security scare over a suspect package.
- I have never been so scared in all my life.
- I'll see if I can scare up enough chairs for us all.
- The latest scare is the computer keyboard: supposedly it contains nearly 70 times more microbes than the average lavatory seat.
- I was scared, I don't mind telling you!
- If you ask me, she's too scared to do it.
- You gave me a scare !
- Someone came up, opened the passenger side door which would scare you.
- He's scared of heights.
- John fired over their heads to throw a scare into them.
- The news set off a continent-wide health scare.
- There's been quite a scare about the possible side effects of this new drug.
- I don't believe for one minute she would have been scared.
- You gave me a scare!
- I was scared to death.
- A bit of a scare shot through Tom—a touch of uncomfortable suspicion.
- Don't you realize what a scare you've given us all?
- The thieves got scared and ran away.
- You scared me.
- I was dead scared.
- He described talk of sackings as scare stories.
- People are scared to use the buses late at night.
- On Oct. 10, a quake occurred very near the Emerald Crystal and was reported nationally. Unlike "usual" tectonic quakes, it did not scare the animals.
- 'Scared stiff' is an apt description of how I felt at that moment.
- Weren't you just a weeny bit scared?
- It scared me to think I was alone in the building.
- She is scared of going out alone.