Scare | Mean of scare in English Dictionary

/ˈskeɚ/

• Verb
• to cause (someone) to become afraid
1. You scared me. I didn't see you there.
2. Stop that, you're scaring the children.
3. The loud noise scared them. = They were scared by the loud noise.
4. You nearly scared me to death. [=you scared me very much]
• to become afraid
1. I don't scare easily.
• to cause (someone or something) to go away and stay away because of fear or because of possible trouble, difficulty, etc.
1. The dog scared the prowler away.
2. The noise scared off the birds.
3. Tourists have been scared off by the recent violence in the city. [=tourists have not visited the city because of the recent violence there]
4. She finally found a man who's not scared away by the fact that she is a single mom raising two children.

• to cause (someone) to do (something) because of fear
1. The police scared him into confessing his crime.
2. They tried to scare us into buying more insurance.
• to find or get (someone or something) with some difficulty
1. We managed to scare up [=scrape up] the money.
2. Let's try to scare up some people to play football.
• Noun
• a sudden feeling of fear
1. You gave me (quite) a scare. [=you scared me]
2. She had a pregnancy scare. [=she was afraid she was pregnant]
• a situation in which a lot of people become afraid because of some threat, danger, etc.
1. There have been scares about the water supply being contaminated.
2. a bomb scare [=a situation in which people are afraid because someone says that a bomb is going to explode]