Definition of Scare

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Definition of Scare
	Scare To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. Related Definitions: Alarm, By, Cause, Fear, Fright, Frighten, In, Mistake, Or, Originating, Produced, Strike, Sudden, To, Trifling, With

Scare Quotations

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
Rita Rudner

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron

Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.
Tupac Shakur

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim Carrey

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams

Scare Translations

scare in Dutch is verjagen, afschrikken
scare in French is effaroucher
scare in German is aufschrecken, verscheuchen
scare in Italian is spaventi
scare in Norwegian is skremme
scare in Spanish is asustar, susto

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