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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

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

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

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 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

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

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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