Synonym: alarm, appall, frighten, horrify, startle, terrify, unnerve. Similar words: scary, scared, scan, scandal, scale, fiscal, scatter, landscape. Meaning: [sker /skeə] n. 1. sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events 2. a sudden attack of fear. v. 1. cause fear in 2. cause to lose courage.
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61. The government used scare tactics to get parents to have their children vaccinated against the disease.
62. Firecrackers are lit to scare off evil spirits.
63. Then she'd jump out and scare them to death!
64. John Smith doesn't scare people anything like as much.
65. Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.
66. I only meant to give her a scare.
67. He was driving fast just to scare us.
68. The tests scare the pants off many managers.
69. The forgery scare had blown over, actually.
70. Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare ....
71. Apparently there had been a bomb scare recently.
72. The game was delayed due to a bomb scare.
73. When Glass bought his house, the area where he lives was full of crack dealers so he does not scare easily.
74. The boy later told detectives he meant only to scare her.
75. A hospitable host, full of charm and not jumpy, in spite of the scare.
76. I think he was employed by the park authorities to scare away all but the most committed.
77. She says that they were told that it was a bomb scare.
78. While the scene is meant to scare us, it also contains a built-in warning device that blunts the shock.
79. Republicans have complained that Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to incite seniors groups and others to oppose the constitutional amendment.
80. He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether some one from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her.
81. That ought to be enough to scare away even the most devoted private-sector champions of better training.
82. The parent tries to intimidate or scare the child into backing down.
83. I don't want to start any scare stories,(http://sentencedict.com/scare.html) but it just illustrates our ignorance.
84. She did it not to scare me, hut to teach me the facts of life.
85. He makes examples of a few to scare the rest.
86. Should I go ahead and stab them or just scare them?
87. Instead. these people only refer to farmers when there is news like a food scare to react to.
88. The rapid fire of questions was deliberate, she knew, designed to scare her into blurting out the truth.
89. The scare has been blown out of proportion, said John Marchello, professor of animal science at the University of Arizona.
90. There was something strange about these and they seemed to scare me though I could not take my eyes away.